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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. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Behavioral Therapy.
(d) Pharmaceuticals.

2. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

3. 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) Broca's area.
(c) Hippocampus.
(d) Right limbic area.

4. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?
(a) Hydrotherapy.
(b) Brain-imaging.
(c) Sound therapy.
(d) Electrostatic.

5. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became a doctor.
(b) He became a lawyer.
(c) He became an accountant.
(d) He became a veterinarian.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?

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

3. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

4. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?

5. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?

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