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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 are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?
(a) Flying.
(b) Crying.
(c) Jumping.
(d) Running.

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

3. 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) Only traumatized.
(c) Both traumatized and normal.
(d) Neither traumatized nor normal.

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

5. Between 19 and 34% of survivors of what type of abuse repress all memories of the trauma?
(a) Physical.
(b) Sexual.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Mental.

Short Answer Questions

1. The subjects of Van der Kolk's study of memories included how many people who had been abused as children?

2. From which person at camp did Van der Kolk learn about the functions of human kidneys?

3. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?

4. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?

5. The outbreak of which war in the early twentieth century led to a renewed focus on the subject of trauma?

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