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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?
(a) Incontinence.
(b) Insomnia.
(c) Facial tics.
(d) Nightmares.

2. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Belgium.
(c) Germany.
(d) Holland.

3. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?
(a) Oxygen.
(b) Saline solution.
(c) Milk.
(d) Plasma.

4. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

5. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?
(a) Pheromones.
(b) Dopamine.
(c) Stress hormones.
(d) Sweat.

6. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Behavioral Therapy.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Pharmaceuticals.
(d) Meditation.

7. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1981.
(c) 2003.
(d) 1972.

8. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?
(a) Over three-quarters.
(b) Over two-thirds.
(c) Under one-quarter.
(d) Over one-half.

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

10. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?
(a) His elementary school classroom.
(b) The bank.
(c) His high school classroom.
(d) The grocery store.

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

12. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?
(a) 14.
(b) 365.
(c) 30.
(d) 1.

13. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?
(a) A swimming pool.
(b) A pair of wings.
(c) A traffic cone.
(d) A trampoline.

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

15. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like calling for help?
(a) Social engagement.
(b) Neuroception.
(c) Fight or flight.
(d) Freeze or collapse.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?

2. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?

3. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

4. 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?

5. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?

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