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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. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Hippocampus.
(b) Broca's area.
(c) Visual cortex.
(d) Right limbic area.

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?
(a) Natural.
(b) Affordable.
(c) Invasive.
(d) Aggressive.

3. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Behavioral Therapy.
(b) Meditation.
(c) Pharmaceuticals.
(d) Hypnosis.

4. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?
(a) The right side of the brain.
(b) The hippocampus.
(c) The amygdala.
(d) The left side of the brain.

5. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?
(a) Talk therapy to pharmaceuticals.
(b) Electroshock therapy to talk therapy.
(c) Pharmaceuticals to behavior therapy.
(d) Confinement to group therapy.

Short Answer Questions

1. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?

2. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?

3. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?

4. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?

5. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What aspects of Noam's traumatic experience made it unlikely that he would suffer lasting negative effects throughout his life?

3. What three elements of the body did Charles Darwin assert communicated by using the same nerve?

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

5. What aspect of the assessment Van der Kolk gave to Noam intrigued Van der Kolk the most and why?

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

7. In the prologue of the text, Van der Kolk names the three main avenues of treatment available to survivors of trauma. What are they?

8. Explain Charles Darwin's theory about the purpose of emotions and Van der Kolk's reason for including it.

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

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

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