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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 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Maine.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Pennsylvania.

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

3. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?
(a) Immunity.
(b) Rage.
(c) Depression.
(d) Fear.

4. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) Toward the start.
(b) Toward the end.
(c) At the beginning.
(d) In the middle.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?

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