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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. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?
(a) Explore it.
(b) Face it.
(c) Dismiss it.
(d) Prevent it.

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

3. 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 a veterinarian.
(d) He became an accountant.

4. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
(a) Science.
(b) Religion.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Technology.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?

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

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

4. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?

5. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?

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