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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. What is NOT an institution that often results in trauma survivors' needs being dismissed?
(a) Family.
(b) Law.
(c) Power.
(d) Economics.

2. In what state did Van der Kolk work with kids in the Children's Center at a particular mental health center?
(a) New York.
(b) Florida.
(c) Maine.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. The first time Van der Kolk worked with his patient named Annie, he only got within how many feet of her?
(a) 3.
(b) 12.
(c) 6.
(d) 20.

4. What does the letter A in the acronym ACE stand for?
(a) Accessible.
(b) Adverse.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Adversarial.

5. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Albert Pesso?
(a) 2009.
(b) 1979.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1994.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?

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

5. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

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