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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. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Behavioral Therapy.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Pharmaceuticals.

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

3. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?
(a) 1.
(b) 30.
(c) 14.
(d) 365.

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

5. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk claims that the solution for survivors of trauma must include helping people to alter the inner sensory landscape of" (72) what?

2. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?

3. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

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 an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?

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