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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. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?
(a) Grateful.
(b) Present.
(c) Happy.
(d) Optimistic.

2. Van der Kolk claims that the solution for survivors of trauma must include helping people to alter the inner sensory landscape of" (72) what?
(a) Their thoughts.
(b) Their emotions.
(c) Their bodies.
(d) Their goals.

3. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 16.
(d) 5.

4. At the end of Chapter 2: Revolution in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk explains that when he saw the limitations of drugs in the treatment of trauma, he began to look for treatments that were more what?
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Natural.
(c) Affordable.
(d) Invasive.

5. In what year did Van der Kolk convince a circuit court judge that memories of sexual abuse often remain inaccessible to victims for years?
(a) 1996.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2011.
(d) 1979.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between 19 and 34% of survivors of what type of abuse repress all memories of the trauma?

2. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

3. After Annie's first appointment with Van der Kolk, she agreed to see him how many times per week?

4. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?

5. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?

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