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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: This is Your Brain on Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 14.
(b) 9.
(c) 16.
(d) 11.

2. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1969.

3. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The self-preservation response.
(b) The defensive response.
(c) The empathetic response.
(d) The fight/flight response.

4. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?
(a) Sleeping and eating.
(b) Binge drinking and riding his motorcycle.
(c) Skydiving and smoking.
(d) Binge drinking and riding his bicycle.

5. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A traffic cone.
(c) A trampoline.
(d) A pair of wings.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?

2. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?

3. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?

4. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?

5. What is the name of the woman featured in the discussion of massage therapy in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self?

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