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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. What activity did Maria engage in during the years she worked with horses?
(a) Blacksmithing.
(b) Shoveling out the stalls.
(c) Dressage.
(d) Racing.

2. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?
(a) The human digestive system.
(b) The human brain.
(c) The human limbic system.
(d) The human organism.

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

4. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

5. At the end of Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement," Van der Kolk asserts that which poet must have had somewhat attentive parents?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) e. e. cummings.
(c) W. H. Auden.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?

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

3. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?

4. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?

5. Victims of child abuse generally receive about how many unrelated diagnoses over the course of their psychiatric treatment?

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