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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 he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?
(a) A hand.
(b) A
(c) A boost.
(d) An invitation.

2. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?
(a) Skydiving and smoking.
(b) Sleeping and eating.
(c) Binge drinking and riding his motorcycle.
(d) Binge drinking and riding his bicycle.

3. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The empathetic response.
(b) The self-preservation response.
(c) The fight/flight response.
(d) The defensive response.

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

5. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1960s.

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. 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?

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

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)?

5. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?

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