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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. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Religion.
(c) Technology.
(d) Science.

2. PTSD sufferers in the study explained by Van der Kolk nearly always went into what mode in response to being looked at?
(a) Self-pity.
(b) Survival.
(c) Attack.
(d) Aggression.

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

4. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?
(a) Flying.
(b) Jumping.
(c) Running.
(d) Crying.

5. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?
(a) The frontal lobe.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The hippocampus.
(d) The Periaqueductal Blue.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?

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

3. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

4. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?

5. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

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