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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which war did the veterans fight who gave Van der Kolk a particular gift for Christmas?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Vietnam War.
(d) The Korean War.

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

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

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

5. What is the name of the woman featured in the discussion of massage therapy in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self?
(a) Sherry.
(b) Mary.
(c) Melanie.
(d) Jamie.

6. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 16.
(b) 14.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

7. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?
(a) Fish.
(b) Monkeys.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Birds.

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

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

10. 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) Aggressive.
(c) Affordable.
(d) Natural.

11. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?
(a) Night watchman.
(b) Nurse.
(c) Receptionist.
(d) Recreation leader.

12. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?
(a) Spine.
(b) Heart.
(c) Brain.
(d) Guts.

13. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) At the beginning.
(b) Toward the end.
(c) Toward the start.
(d) In the middle.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?

2. What is the first option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?

3. What sort of object did a group of veterans to whom Van der Kolk provided care give him for Christmas one year?

4. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?

5. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?

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