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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?
(a) Depression.
(b) Rage.
(c) Immunity.
(d) Fear.

3. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?
(a) Manhattan.
(b) The Bronx.
(c) Queens.
(d) Staten Island.

4. 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) An invitation.
(d) A

5. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The frontal lobe.
(d) The Periaqueductal Blue.

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

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

8. 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.

9. 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) Never existed.
(b) Has come to an end.
(c) Will happen again.
(d) Is still happening.

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

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

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

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

14. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?
(a) Running.
(b) Flying.
(c) Jumping.
(d) Crying.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?

3. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?

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

5. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?

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