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

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

3. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1972.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1981.

4. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1930s.

5. 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?
(a) Visual cortex.
(b) Right limbic area.
(c) Broca's area.
(d) Hippocampus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the name of the woman featured in the discussion of massage therapy in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self?

3. 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)?

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

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

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