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

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) 12.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

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

4. 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 defensive response.
(b) The empathetic response.
(c) The fight/flight response.
(d) The self-preservation response.

5. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Germany.
(c) Holland.
(d) Denmark.

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. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?

3. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?

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

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

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