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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. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 11.
(b) 9.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

2. 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 limbic system.
(b) The human organism.
(c) The human brain.
(d) The human digestive system.

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

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

5. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Maine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?

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

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

4. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

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

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