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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue: Facing Trauma and Part One: The Rediscovery of Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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)?
(a) Under one-quarter.
(b) Over three-quarters.
(c) Over two-thirds.
(d) Over one-half.

2. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?
(a) Recreation leader.
(b) Night watchman.
(c) Receptionist.
(d) Nurse.

3. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?
(a) Fish.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Monkeys.
(d) Birds.

4. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Jung.
(d) Lacan.

5. In the dedication to the book, what object does Van der Kolk use to metaphorically characterize his patients?
(a) Beacons.
(b) Textbooks.
(c) Keys.
(d) Kingdoms.

Short Answer Questions

1. From which person at camp did Van der Kolk learn about the functions of human kidneys?

2. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?

3. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?

4. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?

5. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?

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