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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How old was Maria when she first came to Van der Kolk's residential treatment center?
(a) 11.
(b) 40.
(c) 21.
(d) 15.

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

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) W. H. Auden.
(c) Walt Whitman.
(d) T. S. Eliot.

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

6. In what year was the DSM-IV published?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1970.
(c) 2010.
(d) 2000.

7. Van der Kalk states that the "essence of trauma is" (195) all but which of the following?
(a) Overwhelming.
(b) Unbearable.
(c) Unbelievable.
(d) Invisible.

8. 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) San Francisco.
(b) Cincinnati.
(c) Boston.
(d) Chicago.

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

10. Victims of child abuse generally receive about how many unrelated diagnoses over the course of their psychiatric treatment?
(a) 7 or 8.
(b) 3 or 4.
(c) 9 or 10.
(d) 5 or 6.

11. The system that makes memories fails if the experience is infused with too much what?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Confusion.
(c) Context.
(d) Horror.

12. 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) Restlessness.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Amnesia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group(s) of research subjects viewing the photograph of a father and his children free-associate violent stories?

2. Bessel Van der Kolk names Janet as one of his most important teachers. What was Janet's first name?

3. In what state did Van der Kolk undertake a study of traumatic memories versus benign memories?

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

5. Which kind of ACE scores are associated with the greatest chances of problems relating to trauma?

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