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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?
(a) The main treatment.
(b) An adjunct in their overall treatment.
(c) At least half of their treatment.
(d) Only part of their treatment during emergencies.

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

4. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?
(a) 1970.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

5. 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) Never existed.
(c) Has come to an end.
(d) Will happen again.

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

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

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

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

10. 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 bodies.
(c) Their thoughts.
(d) Their goals.

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

12. The Polyvagal Theory involves the existence of how many different levels of response within the control of the autonomic nervous system?
(a) 5.
(b) 3.
(c) 8.
(d) 2.

13. 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) Under one-quarter.
(b) Over three-quarters.
(c) Over one-half.
(d) Over two-thirds.

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

15. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) The University of Minnesota.
(b) The University of Delaware.
(c) The University of Maryland.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?

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

3. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?

4. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?

5. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?

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