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

2. PTSD sufferers in the study explained by Van der Kolk nearly always went into what mode in response to being looked at?
(a) Attack.
(b) Self-pity.
(c) Survival.
(d) Aggression.

3. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Visual cortex.
(b) Right limbic area.
(c) Hippocampus.
(d) Broca's area.

4. After Annie's first appointment with Van der Kolk, she agreed to see him how many times per week?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) Maine.
(b) New York.
(c) Pennsylvania.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only treatment Van der Kolk has seen reverse trauma-related learning disabilities?

2. In the study of people who had escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11, what was reported to be the third most effective treatment for dealing with trauma?

3. 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?

4. Van der Kolk asserts that "the memory of" what "is stored as muscle tension or feelings of disintegration" (265)?

5. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?

(see the answer key)

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