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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 he grew up in which country during the postwar years?
(a) Belgium.
(b) Germany.
(c) Holland.
(d) Denmark.

2. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?
(a) Sleeping and eating.
(b) Skydiving and smoking.
(c) Binge drinking and riding his bicycle.
(d) Binge drinking and riding his motorcycle.

3. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 6.

4. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?
(a) Prevent it.
(b) Dismiss it.
(c) Explore it.
(d) Face it.

5. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Milk.
(c) Saline solution.
(d) Plasma.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?

3. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?

4. 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)?

5. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

(see the answer key)

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