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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. 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)?
(a) Over three-quarters.
(b) Over two-thirds.
(c) Under one-quarter.
(d) Over one-half.

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

3. How old was Maria when she first came to Van der Kolk's residential treatment center?
(a) 11.
(b) 40.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

4. 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?
(a) The Periaqueductal Gray.
(b) The Periaqueductal Black.
(c) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(d) The Periaqueductal Yellow.

5. To whom is the epigraph for Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" attributed?
(a) Diane Foshe.
(b) Nina Fish-Murray.
(c) Jean Piaget.
(d) Henry Murray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk claims that the solution for survivors of trauma must include helping people to alter the inner sensory landscape of" (72) what?

2. What kind of expression did Marilyn draw on all of the people in her family portrait?

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

4. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?

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

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