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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 what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1978.
(c) 2008.
(d) 1988.

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

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

4. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?
(a) Brain-imaging.
(b) Hydrotherapy.
(c) Sound therapy.
(d) Electrostatic.

5. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became an accountant.
(b) He became a doctor.
(c) He became a veterinarian.
(d) He became a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?

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. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?

4. 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?

5. 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)?

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