View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an element described by W. H. Auden as one that resents "approaches that are too intense" (125)?
(a) Loyalty.
(b) Love.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Truth.

2. Which individual or group was NOT mentioned among the people Maria was able to talk to as a result of her equine therapy?
(a) Her horse.
(b) Her parents.
(c) The other kids in the program.
(d) Her therapist.

3. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?
(a) Active.
(b) Creative.
(c) Passive.
(d) Thoughtful.

4. What is the third option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?
(a) Social engagement.
(b) Neuroception.
(c) Fight or flight.
(d) Freeze or collapse.

5. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
(a) Science.
(b) Technology.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Religion.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

2. On what occasion did Van der Kolk see Maria again for the first time since she left the residential treatment center?

3. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?

4. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

5. The Polyvagal Theory involves the existence of how many different levels of response within the control of the autonomic nervous system?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 281 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample