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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 realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The self-preservation response.
(b) The fight/flight response.
(c) The empathetic response.
(d) The defensive response.

2. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?
(a) Nightmares.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Incontinence.
(d) Facial tics.

3. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?
(a) Blue.
(b) Yellow.
(c) Black.
(d) Red.

4. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?
(a) 14.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Marilyn when Van der Kolk first began to treat her?

3. In Chapter 8: “Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect,” Van der Kolk claims that victims of sexual abuse are often diagnosed with bipolar disorder if a doctor focuses on which symptom?

4. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?

5. To whom is the epigraph for Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" attributed?

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