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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Minds of Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like entering a fugue state?
(a) Freeze or collapse.
(b) Neuroception.
(c) Social engagement.
(d) Fight or flight.

2. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Jung.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Freud.

3. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?
(a) Paul Harrington.
(b) Saul Zaentz.
(c) Elvin Semrad.
(d) Abram Kardiner.

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

5. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?
(a) Saline solution.
(b) Plasma.
(c) Milk.
(d) Oxygen.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?

2. Which autoimmune disease did Marilyn contract, according to Van der Kolk?

3. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?

4. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?

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

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