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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) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 9.
(d) 11.

2. At the end of Chapter 2: Revolution in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk explains that when he saw the limitations of drugs in the treatment of trauma, he began to look for treatments that were more what?
(a) Invasive.
(b) Natural.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Affordable.

3. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?
(a) Night watchman.
(b) Recreation leader.
(c) Receptionist.
(d) Nurse.

4. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?
(a) Present.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Happy.
(d) Grateful.

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

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. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?

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?

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

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

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