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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. In what way does Van der Kolk classify Maria's identity?
(a) Latinx.
(b) Mexican.
(c) Portuguese.
(d) Columbian.

2. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Jung.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Lacan.

3. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?
(a) His high school classroom.
(b) His elementary school classroom.
(c) The bank.
(d) The grocery store.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Van der Kolk convince a circuit court judge that memories of sexual abuse often remain inaccessible to victims for years?

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

3. How many years before the publication of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma did Mary Main and her colleagues coin the term "disorganized attachment" (116)?

4. What diagnosis did Van der Kolk and his colleagues try to add to the DSM-IV before its publication?

5. The function of the brain, Van der Kolk asserts, is to ensure what?

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