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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 kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?
(a) Creative.
(b) Passive.
(c) Thoughtful.
(d) Active.

2. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?
(a) Queens.
(b) Staten Island.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

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

4. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) The University of Delaware.
(b) The University of Maryland.
(c) The University of Minnesota.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

5. What is the name of the woman featured in the discussion of massage therapy in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sherry.
(c) Melanie.
(d) Jamie.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?

4. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?

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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