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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Paths to Recovery and Epilogue: Choices to Be Made.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the study of people who had escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11, what was reported to be the fourth most effective treatment for dealing with trauma?
(a) Yoga.
(b) Massage.
(c) EMDR.
(d) Hydrotherapy.

2. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like entering a fugue state?
(a) Fight or flight.
(b) Social engagement.
(c) Freeze or collapse.
(d) Neuroception.

3. How much of her childhood did Marilyn remember when she first began to see Van der Kolk?
(a) All of it.
(b) Half of it.
(c) Nothing before age 6.
(d) Very little.

4. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3/4.

5. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?
(a) Passive.
(b) Active.
(c) Thoughtful.
(d) Creative.

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. In what decade did articles about False Memory Syndrome begin to appear in magazines across the United States and Europe?

3. What is NOT an institution that often results in trauma survivors' needs being dismissed?

4. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?

5. The activities that occur during a session of EMDR mimic what natural process?

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