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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Paths to Recovery and Epilogue: Choices to Be Made.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Van der Kolk asserts that performing what action around a traumatic memory will not necessarily resolve its negative effects?
(a) Speaking about it.
(b) Undergoing hypnosis.
(c) Writing about it.
(d) Remembering it.

2. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Pharmaceuticals.
(d) Behavioral Therapy.

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

4. Maria told Van der Kolk that equine therapy had helped her make what types of connections with another living creature?
(a) Mutual.
(b) Visceral.
(c) Social.
(d) Safe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?

2. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?

3. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?

4. In what country did Desmond Tutu moderate public hearings for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?

5. PTSD sufferers in the study explained by Van der Kolk nearly always went into what mode in response to being looked at?

(see the answer key)

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