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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How many organized attachment strategies have been identified within the methods infants use to get at least some of their needs met?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

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

6. What diagnosis did Van der Kolk and his colleagues try to add to the DSM-IV before its publication?
(a) Complex PTSD.
(b) Trauma Disorder.
(c) Simple Anxiety.
(d) Attachment Disorder.

7. 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) Electroshock.
(c) Pharmaceuticals.
(d) Hypnosis.

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

9. In what year did Janet publish "the first book-length account of" (187) a particular subject?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1901.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1889.

10. In what year did a particular country's government issue the Southborough Report?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1946.
(c) 1934.
(d) 1922.

11. A character from which novel provides the quote for the epigraph of Chapter 11, "Uncovering Secrets: The Problems of Traumatic Memory"?
(a) All Quiet on the Western Front.
(b) The Sisters Brothers.
(c) Lonesome Dove.
(d) The Red Badge of Courage.

12. 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.

13. In what year did Van der Kolk and a colleague conduct a study of traumatic versus benign memories?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1978.
(c) 1994.
(d) 2001.

14. In what year was the novel All Quiet on the Western Front published?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1903.
(d) 1919.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The system that makes memories fails if the experience is infused with too much what?

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

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

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?

5. Between 19 and 34% of survivors of what type of abuse repress all memories of the trauma?

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