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

2. In how many languages was the novel All Quiet on the Western Front published soon after its initial release?
(a) 25.
(b) 5.
(c) 40.
(d) 10.

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

4. What does the letter M stand for in EMDR?
(a) Movement.
(b) Mitigation.
(c) Migratory.
(d) Motion.

5. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 7.
(d) 20.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What percentage of the fibers in the vagus nerve are afferent, meaning that they travel from the body up to the brain?

3. What activity did Maria engage in during the years she worked with horses?

4. How many survivors of 9/11 participated in the study described in Chapter 14, "Language: Miracle and Tyranny"?

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

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