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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. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?
(a) Electroshock therapy to talk therapy.
(b) Talk therapy to pharmaceuticals.
(c) Confinement to group therapy.
(d) Pharmaceuticals to behavior therapy.

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 Navy.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Army.
(d) The Marines.

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) Present.
(d) Optimistic.

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

5. 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 brain.
(b) The human organism.
(c) The human limbic system.
(d) The human digestive system.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?

2. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?

3. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?

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

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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