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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 thoughts.
(b) Their goals.
(c) Their emotions.
(d) Their bodies.

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

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

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

6. 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 traffic cone.
(b) A trampoline.
(c) A swimming pool.
(d) A pair of wings.

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

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

9. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The fight/flight response.
(b) The defensive response.
(c) The empathetic response.
(d) The self-preservation response.

10. The function of the brain, Van der Kolk asserts, is to ensure what?
(a) Logic.
(b) Homeostasis.
(c) Solutions to problems.
(d) Survival.

11. 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 Maryland.
(c) The University of Minnesota.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

12. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?
(a) The human brain.
(b) The human digestive system.
(c) The human organism.
(d) The human limbic system.

13. 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) An adjunct in their overall treatment.
(b) At least half of their treatment.
(c) The main treatment.
(d) Only part of their treatment during emergencies.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?

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

3. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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

5. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?

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