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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Invasive.
(b) Natural.
(c) Affordable.
(d) Aggressive.

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

3. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?
(a) A hand.
(b) A boost.
(c) A
(d) An invitation.

4. Who coined the term "neuroception" (74) to describe the capacity to evaluate the safety within a particular environment?
(a) Jones.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Porges.

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

6. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?
(a) The Army.
(b) The Air Force.
(c) The Marines.
(d) The Navy.

7. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?
(a) Is still happening.
(b) Has come to an end.
(c) Will happen again.
(d) Never existed.

8. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?
(a) A medal.
(b) A scarf.
(c) A watch.
(d) A hat.

9. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The defensive response.
(b) The self-preservation response.
(c) The empathetic response.
(d) The fight/flight response.

10. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
(a) Religion.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Science.
(d) Technology.

11. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1836.
(c) 1872.
(d) 1854.

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

13. 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 emotions.
(b) Their goals.
(c) Their thoughts.
(d) Their bodies.

14. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?
(a) Sleeping and eating.
(b) Binge drinking and riding his motorcycle.
(c) Skydiving and smoking.
(d) Binge drinking and riding his bicycle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?

2. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?

3. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?

4. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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

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