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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?
(a) Dismiss it.
(b) Face it.
(c) Explore it.
(d) Prevent it.

3. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?
(a) 30.
(b) 7.
(c) 21.
(d) 10.

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

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

6. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
(a) Noam's older brother.
(b) Noam's older sister.
(c) Noam's mother.
(d) Noam's cousin.

7. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Freud.
(b) Jung.
(c) Lacan.
(d) Maslow.

8. 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) Broca's area.
(b) Hippocampus.
(c) Visual cortex.
(d) Right limbic area.

9. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

10. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1950s.

11. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Rape.
(c) Kidnapping.
(d) Incest.

12. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

13. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?
(a) Her neck.
(b) Her head.
(c) Her feet.
(d) Her back.

14. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 12.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

4. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

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

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