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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 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 brain.
(c) The human digestive system.
(d) The human organism.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer 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)?

2. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?

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. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?

5. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?

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