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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 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) Visual cortex.
(b) Right limbic area.
(c) Broca's area.
(d) Hippocampus.

2. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

3. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?
(a) The human digestive system.
(b) The human limbic system.
(c) The human brain.
(d) The human organism.

4. In what year did Van der Kolk help conduct a study of people who had escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2002.
(c) 2011
(d) 2006.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

2. How many volunteers participated in the study Van der Kolk and a colleague conducted around memories?

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

4. 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 bipolar disorder if a doctor focuses on which symptom?

5. Which group(s) of research subjects looking at the photograph of kids watching their father noted danger present in the situation?

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