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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. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Saline solution.
(c) Plasma.
(d) Milk.

2. 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)?
(a) Over two-thirds.
(b) Under one-quarter.
(c) Over one-half.
(d) Over three-quarters.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?

3. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?

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

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