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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. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?
(a) Has come to an end.
(b) Is still happening.
(c) Never existed.
(d) Will happen again.

2. What activity did Maria engage in during the years she worked with horses?
(a) Shoveling out the stalls.
(b) Racing.
(c) Dressage.
(d) Blacksmithing.

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

4. In what city was Humboldt University located?
(a) Boston.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Philadelphia.

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

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. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?

3. In what state did Van der Kolk work with kids in the Children's Center at a particular mental health center?

4. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?

5. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?

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