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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. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) 7.
(b) 5.
(c) 20.
(d) 10.

2. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2008.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1978.

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

4. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Night watchman.
(c) Receptionist.
(d) Recreation leader.

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

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. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?

3. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?

4. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?

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

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