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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 which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The frontal lobe.
(c) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(d) The hippocampus.

2. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
(a) Noam's older brother.
(b) Noam's older sister.
(c) Noam's mother.
(d) Noam's cousin.

3. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Kidnapping.
(c) Incest.
(d) Rape.

4. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?
(a) Present.
(b) Optimistic.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Happy.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?

2. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?

3. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

4. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?

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

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