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

2. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

3. What is the third option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?
(a) Neuroception.
(b) Freeze or collapse.
(c) Fight or flight.
(d) Social engagement.

4. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?
(a) Brain-imaging.
(b) Hydrotherapy.
(c) Electrostatic.
(d) Sound therapy.

5. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?
(a) Fish.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Birds.
(d) Dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?

2. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?

3. In what year did a particular country's government issue the Southborough Report?

4. Which group(s) of research subjects viewing the photograph of a father and his children free-associate violent stories?

5. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?

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