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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?
(a) 10 thousand.
(b) 1 thousand.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 10 million.

5. 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 pair of wings.
(c) A trampoline.
(d) A swimming pool.

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

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

8. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1971.

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

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

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

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

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

14. 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) 10.
(c) 21.
(d) 7.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

2. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?

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

4. 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?

5. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like entering a fugue state?

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