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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What activity did Maria engage in during the years she worked with horses?
(a) Dressage.
(b) Blacksmithing.
(c) Shoveling out the stalls.
(d) Racing.

2. In what city did Van der Kolk convince a circuit court judge that memories of sexual abuse often remain inaccessible to victims for years?
(a) Cincinnati.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Boston.

3. 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 clinical depression if a doctor focuses on which symptom?
(a) Ennui.
(b) Despair.
(c) Dissociation.
(d) Listlessness.

4. At the end of Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement," Van der Kolk asserts that which poet must have had somewhat attentive parents?
(a) e. e. cummings.
(b) T. S. Eliot.
(c) W. H. Auden.
(d) Walt Whitman.

5. How many days before Julian would have been eligible for full benefits was he discharged from the military?
(a) 20.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 60.

6. 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.

7. In what city was Humboldt University located?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Sacramento.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Boston.

8. Maria told Van der Kolk that equine therapy had helped her make what types of connections with another living creature?
(a) Visceral.
(b) Mutual.
(c) Safe.
(d) Social.

9. 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.

10. How many volunteers participated in the study Van der Kolk and a colleague conducted around memories?
(a) 39.
(b) 12.
(c) 76.
(d) 52.

11. Janet is said to have published "the first book-length account of" (187) what subject?
(a) Child abuse.
(b) Incest.
(c) Traumatic stress.
(d) The role of genetics in violent behavior.

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

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

14. 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 ADD if a doctor focuses on which symptom?
(a) Tremors.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Restlessness.
(d) Amnesia.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state did Van der Kolk work with kids in the Children's Center at a particular mental health center?

2. At which institution of higher learning did Mary Main work when she and her colleagues coined the term "disorganized attachment" (116)?

3. Van der Kolk asserts that performing what action around a traumatic memory will not necessarily resolve its negative effects?

4. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?

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

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