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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. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?
(a) Over two-thirds.
(b) Over three-quarters.
(c) Under one-quarter.
(d) Over one-half.

2. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Broca's area.
(b) Visual cortex.
(c) Right limbic area.
(d) Hippocampus.

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

4. The function of the brain, Van der Kolk asserts, is to ensure what?
(a) Solutions to problems.
(b) Survival.
(c) Logic.
(d) Homeostasis.

5. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?
(a) A medal.
(b) A hat.
(c) A scarf.
(d) A watch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like calling for help?

2. The Polyvagal Theory involves the existence of how many different levels of response within the control of the autonomic nervous system?

3. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?

4. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

5. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?

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