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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. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?
(a) Kidnapping.
(b) Rape.
(c) Incest.
(d) Child abuse.

2. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?
(a) The Periaqueductal Gray.
(b) The Periaqueductal Black.
(c) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(d) The Periaqueductal Yellow.

3. 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 self-preservation response.
(b) The defensive response.
(c) The empathetic response.
(d) The fight/flight response.

4. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Freud.
(d) Jung.

5. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) 2000.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

2. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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?

4. Van der Kolk claims that the solution for survivors of trauma must include helping people to alter the inner sensory landscape of" (72) what?

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

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