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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 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?
(a) Mood swings.
(b) Sleeplessness.
(c) Irritability.
(d) Lethargy.

2. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?
(a) Brain.
(b) Heart.
(c) Spine.
(d) Guts.

3. What does the letter A in the acronym ACE stand for?
(a) Adversarial.
(b) Anxious.
(c) Accessible.
(d) Adverse.

4. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?
(a) The Navy.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Army.

5. In what year did Van der Kolk convince a circuit court judge that memories of sexual abuse often remain inaccessible to victims for years?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1979.
(c) 2003.
(d) 2011.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?

2. Which attachment strategy is NOT classified among the group of organized attachment strategies?

3. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?

4. How does Van der Kolk describe the patterns of a survivor of unresolved trauma?

5. Which individual or group was NOT mentioned among the people Maria was able to talk to as a result of her equine therapy?

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