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

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

3. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became an accountant.
(b) He became a veterinarian.
(c) He became a lawyer.
(d) He became a doctor.

4. What is the second option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?
(a) Fight or flight.
(b) Social engagement.
(c) Freeze or collapse.
(d) Neuroception.

5. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the third option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?

2. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?

3. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?

4. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?

5. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?

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