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

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

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

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. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) 20.
(b) 7.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

2. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

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

4. 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?

5. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

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