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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 score on the ACE questionnaire would indicate the largest risk of negative effects from childhood trauma?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.

2. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1969.

3. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?
(a) Fear.
(b) Rage.
(c) Depression.
(d) Immunity.

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

5. 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) Truth.
(d) Sleep.

Short Answer Questions

1. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?

2. At the end of Chapter 2: Revolution in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk explains that when he saw the limitations of drugs in the treatment of trauma, he began to look for treatments that were more what?

3. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?

4. How many years before the publication of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma did Mary Main and her colleagues coin the term "disorganized attachment" (116)?

5. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?

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