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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. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1990.
(c) 2000.
(d) 1980.

2. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?
(a) Paul Harrington.
(b) Saul Zaentz.
(c) Abram Kardiner.
(d) Elvin Semrad.

3. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

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

5. 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)?
(a) Over two-thirds.
(b) Under one-quarter.
(c) Over three-quarters.
(d) Over one-half.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like entering a fugue state?

2. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?

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

4. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?

5. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?

(see the answer key)

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