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

2. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?
(a) Has come to an end.
(b) Never existed.
(c) Is still happening.
(d) Will happen again.

3. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1981.
(d) 2003.

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

5. Who coined the term "neuroception" (74) to describe the capacity to evaluate the safety within a particular environment?
(a) Maslow.
(b) Jones.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Porges.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?

2. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?

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

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

5. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?

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