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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. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) Maine.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) New York.
(d) Pennsylvania.

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 neck.
(b) Her back.
(c) Her feet.
(d) Her head.

3. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 3/4.

4. Victims of child abuse generally receive about how many unrelated diagnoses over the course of their psychiatric treatment?
(a) 7 or 8.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 3 or 4.
(d) 9 or 10.

5. The photograph discussed in Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" depicts how many children watching their father complete a task?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?

2. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?

3. In what state did Van der Kolk work with kids in the Children's Center at a particular mental health center?

4. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?

5. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?

(see the answer key)

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