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

2. What percentage of the fibers in the vagus nerve are afferent, meaning that they travel from the body up to the brain?
(a) 80.
(b) 60.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

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

4. Van der Kolk asserts that "the memory of" what "is stored as muscle tension or feelings of disintegration" (265)?
(a) Pain.
(b) Fear.
(c) Abuse.
(d) Helplessness.

5. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?
(a) A hand.
(b) An invitation.
(c) A boost.
(d) A

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8: “Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect,” Van der Kolk claims that victims of sexual abuse are often diagnosed with clinical depression if a doctor focuses on which symptom?

2. Which kind of ACE scores are associated with the greatest chances of problems relating to trauma?

3. In what year did Van der Kolk help conduct a study of people who had escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11?

4. From what country did the writer of All Quiet on the Western Front hail?

5. At the end of Annie's first appointment with Van der Kolk, she grinned at him and told him that he was what?

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