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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: This is Your Brain on Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1950s.

2. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) Toward the start.
(b) Toward the end.
(c) In the middle.
(d) At the beginning.

3. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1969.

4. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Black.
(c) Blue.
(d) Red.

5. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 1 million.
(c) 10 thousand.
(d) 1 thousand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?

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

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

4. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?

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

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