2. On what occasion did Van der Kolk see Maria again for the first time since she left the residential treatment center?
(a) Maria's high school graduation.
(b) Maria's funeral.
(c) Maria's 21st birthday.
(d) Maria's 18th birthday.

3. What method was widely used to treat combat trauma caused by World War II experiences?
(a) Massage.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Truth serum.
(d) Acupuncture.

4. What is NOT an institution that often results in trauma survivors' needs being dismissed?
(a) Economics.
(b) Family.
(c) Law.
(d) Power.

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

6. 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) Sleep.
(d) Truth.

7. In what way does Van der Kolk classify Maria's identity?
(a) Columbian.
(b) Mexican.
(c) Portuguese.
(d) Latinx.

8. Which group(s) of research subjects viewing the photograph of a father and his children free-associate violent stories?
(a) Only normal.
(b) Neither traumatized nor normal.
(c) Only traumatized.
(d) Both traumatized and normal.

9. The photograph discussed in Chapter 7: , "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" depicts children watching their father complete what task?
(a) Repair a car.
(b) Paint a fence.
(c) Wash a dog.
(d) Wash a car.

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

11. At which institution of higher learning did Mary Main work when she and her colleagues coined the term "disorganized attachment" (116)?
(a) University of Boston.
(b) University of Washington.
(c) Berkeley.
(d) Cornell.

12. The subjects of Van der Kolk's study of memories included how many people who had been abused as children?
(a) 25.
(b) 5.
(c) 15.
(d) 35.

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

14. Between 19 and 34% of survivors of what type of abuse repress all memories of the trauma?
(a) Sexual.
(b) Physical.
(c) Mental.
(d) Emotional.

15. Chapter 12, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering,” begins with the assertion that scientific interest in trauma has been experiencing wild fluctuations for how many years?
(a) 150.
(b) 100.
(c) 30.
(d) 75.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 8: “Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect,” Van der Kolk claims that victims of sexual abuse are often diagnosed with bipolar disorder if a doctor focuses on which symptom?

2. In what part of her eye did Marilyn contract an autoimmune disease?

3. From what country did the writer of All Quiet on the Western Front hail?

4. While Julian was serving in the military, he remembered that he had been sexually abused as a child by which member of his community?

5. Van der Kalk states that the "essence of trauma is" (195) all but which of the following?

(see the answer keys)

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