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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Maria told Van der Kolk that working with horses had allowed her to feel what emotion for the very first time?
(a) Empathy.
(b) Love.
(c) Safety.
(d) Compassion.

2. The outbreak of which war in the early twentieth century led to a renewed focus on the subject of trauma?
(a) World War I.
(b) World War II.
(c) The Spanish-Indian War.
(d) The Korean War.

3. While Julian was serving in the military, he remembered that he had been sexually abused as a child by which member of his community?
(a) A teacher.
(b) A priest.
(c) A coach.
(d) A bus driver.

4. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?
(a) 5.
(b) 14.
(c) 7.
(d) 11.

5. For how many years did Maria participate in an equine therapy program?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

6. From what country did the writer of All Quiet on the Western Front hail?
(a) Sweden.
(b) England.
(c) The United States.
(d) France.

7. In what decade did articles about False Memory Syndrome begin to appear in magazines across the United States and Europe?
(a) The 1980s.
(b) The 1990s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 2000s.

8. What kind of expression did Marilyn draw on all of the people in her family portrait?
(a) Blank.
(b) Sad.
(c) Angry.
(d) Happy.

9. What term did the Southborough Report seek to abolish in the diagnoses of war veterans?
(a) Disability.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Trauma.
(d) Shell-shock.

10. Which group(s) of research subjects looking at the photograph of kids watching their father noted danger present in the situation?
(a) Only traumatized.
(b) Only normal.
(c) Both traumatized and normal.
(d) Neither traumatized nor normal.

11. Before the outbreak of a particular war refocused society's attention on trauma, what method of psychological treatment had risen to prominence?
(a) Talk therapy.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Electroshock.
(d) Pharmaceuticals.

12. What is NOT an element described by W. H. Auden as one that resents "approaches that are too intense" (125)?
(a) Love.
(b) Loyalty.
(c) Truth.
(d) Sleep.

13. How many years before the publication of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma did Mary Main and her colleagues coin the term "disorganized attachment" (116)?
(a) 20.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 3.

14. Which individual or group was NOT mentioned among the people Maria was able to talk to as a result of her equine therapy?
(a) Her parents.
(b) Her horse.
(c) The other kids in the program.
(d) Her therapist.

15. To whom is the epigraph for Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" attributed?
(a) Jean Piaget.
(b) Henry Murray.
(c) Diane Foshe.
(d) Nina Fish-Murray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that those affected by trauma still have major symptoms three months after completing what kind of treatment?

2. In what branch of the military was Julian serving when he was given a medical discharge?

3. Which country's government was responsible for issuing the Southborough Report?

4. In what year did Van der Kolk convince a circuit court judge that memories of sexual abuse often remain inaccessible to victims for years?

5. The photograph discussed in Chapter 7: , "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" depicts children watching their father complete what task?

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