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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. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A pair of wings.
(c) A traffic cone.
(d) A trampoline.

2. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?
(a) Receptionist.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Recreation leader.
(d) Night watchman.

3. Which group(s) of research subjects looking at the photograph of kids watching their father noted danger present in the situation?
(a) Both traumatized and normal.
(b) Only normal.
(c) Neither traumatized nor normal.
(d) Only traumatized.

4. What is the name of the woman featured in the discussion of massage therapy in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self?
(a) Mary.
(b) Melanie.
(c) Jamie.
(d) Sherry.

5. PTSD sufferers in the study explained by Van der Kolk nearly always went into what mode in response to being looked at?
(a) Survival.
(b) Attack.
(c) Self-pity.
(d) Aggression.

Short Answer Questions

1. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

2. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like calling for help?

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

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

5. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?

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