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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 4.
(d) 1.

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

3. Generally, a memory is captured more vividly if more of what substance is secreted at the time the memory is made?
(a) Dopamine.
(b) Adrenaline.
(c) Pheromones.
(d) Serotonin.

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

5. Van der Kolk asserts that performing what action around a traumatic memory will not necessarily resolve its negative effects?
(a) Speaking about it.
(b) Writing about it.
(c) Remembering it.
(d) Undergoing hypnosis.

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

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

8. What does the letter A in the acronym ACE stand for?
(a) Anxious.
(b) Adversarial.
(c) Accessible.
(d) Adverse.

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

10. 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) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

11. Bessel Van der Kolk names Janet as one of his most important teachers. What was Janet's first name?
(a) Stephen.
(b) Matthew.
(c) Pierre.
(d) Elroy.

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

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

14. How does Van der Kolk describe the patterns of a survivor of unresolved trauma?
(a) Erratic.
(b) Non-linear.
(c) Cyclical.
(d) Linear.

15. 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) Dissociation.
(b) Despair.
(c) Listlessness.
(d) Ennui.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which autoimmune disease did Marilyn contract, according to Van der Kolk?

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

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

4. Janet is said to have published "the first book-length account of" (187) what subject?

5. What is NOT an element described by W. H. Auden as one that resents "approaches that are too intense" (125)?

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