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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Imprint of Trauma.

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 trampoline.
(b) A traffic cone.
(c) A pair of wings.
(d) A swimming pool.

2. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 16.
(b) 5.
(c) 12.
(d) 8.

3. A character from which novel provides the quote for the epigraph of Chapter 11, "Uncovering Secrets: The Problems of Traumatic Memory"?
(a) The Red Badge of Courage.
(b) Lonesome Dove.
(c) All Quiet on the Western Front.
(d) The Sisters Brothers.

4. How many organized attachment strategies have been identified within the methods infants use to get at least some of their needs met?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

5. Van der Kolk states that it is common for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to take what action in regards to their memories of the abuse?
(a) To regress.
(b) To repress.
(c) To redress.
(d) To conflate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?

2. While Julian was serving in the military, he remembered that he had been sexually abused as a child by which member of his community?

3. In what decade did articles about False Memory Syndrome begin to appear in magazines across the United States and Europe?

4. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

5. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?

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