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

2. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?
(a) The Periaqueductal Yellow.
(b) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(c) The Periaqueductal Black.
(d) The Periaqueductal Gray.

3. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Religion.
(c) Science.
(d) Technology.

4. 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 fight/flight response.
(b) The defensive response.
(c) The self-preservation response.
(d) The empathetic response.

5. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Queens.
(d) Staten Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?

3. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?

4. 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)?

5. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

(see the answer key)

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