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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) 2000.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

2. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?
(a) Her head.
(b) Her back.
(c) Her feet.
(d) Her neck.

3. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?
(a) The Army.
(b) The Navy.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Air Force.

4. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?
(a) 10 million.
(b) 1 thousand.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 10 thousand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?

2. What is the second option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?

3. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?

4. 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)?

5. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?

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