View a FREE sample

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. The function of the brain, Van der Kolk asserts, is to ensure what?
(a) Homeostasis.
(b) Logic.
(c) Solutions to problems.
(d) Survival.

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

3. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became a veterinarian.
(b) He became a lawyer.
(c) He became an accountant.
(d) He became a doctor.

4. Which score on the ACE questionnaire would indicate the largest risk of negative effects from childhood trauma?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 20.

5. In what year did Van der Kolk help conduct a study of people who had escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2011
(d) 2002.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?

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

3. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?

4. What is NOT an element described by W. H. Auden as one that resents "approaches that are too intense" (125)?

5. How much of her childhood did Marilyn remember when she first began to see Van der Kolk?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 211 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample