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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 types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?
(a) Electrostatic.
(b) Hydrotherapy.
(c) Brain-imaging.
(d) Sound therapy.

2. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1836.
(d) 1854.

3. The Polyvagal Theory involves the existence of how many different levels of response within the control of the autonomic nervous system?
(a) 8.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Germany.
(c) Belgium.
(d) Holland.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?

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

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

5. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?

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