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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what year did Steve Porges develop the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) 1972.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1981.
(d) 2003.

2. Who coined the term "neuroception" (74) to describe the capacity to evaluate the safety within a particular environment?
(a) Porges.
(b) Darwin.
(c) Maslow.
(d) Jones.

3. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1944.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1917.

4. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1950s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1960s.

5. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?
(a) Over one-half.
(b) Under one-quarter.
(c) Over two-thirds.
(d) Over three-quarters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?

2. At the end of Chapter 2: Revolution in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk explains that when he saw the limitations of drugs in the treatment of trauma, he began to look for treatments that were more what?

3. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?

4. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?

5. What position did Van der Kolk hold when he first began to work at a mental health center?

Short Essay Questions

1. Which of Tom's symptoms did Van der Kolk decide to actively treat and why?

2. What conclusion did Van der Kolk reach about the treatment of trauma after reading Charles Darwin's book The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

3. What relationship does Van der Kolk identify between trauma and sensory experiences?

4. What is Van der Kolk's purpose for including a story about Tom's refusal to take his prescribed medication?

5. What conclusion did Van der Kolk come to after the experiment involving the human gaze?

6. What does the cage symbolize within Van der Kolk's story about Steven Meier's experiments?

7. What does Van der Kolk mean when he says he hopes that the book serves as not only a guide, but as an invitation?

8. Who developed the Polyvagal Theory and for which academic institution did he work at the time?

9. What is the meaning of the term "neuroception"?

10. What are the limitations of Prozac, according to Van der Kolk, and why are they significant?

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