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

2. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) Maine.
(b) Pennsylvania.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

3. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

4. Van der Kolk claims that the solution for survivors of trauma must include helping people to alter the inner sensory landscape of" (72) what?
(a) Their bodies.
(b) Their emotions.
(c) Their goals.
(d) Their thoughts.

5. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?
(a) Yellow.
(b) Red.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?

2. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

3. 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?

4. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

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 major transition in the world of psychiatry did Van der Kolk get to witness, as described in Chapter 2, "Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain"?

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

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

4. What are the three levels of response available to humans facing stressful situations, according to Steve Porges?

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

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

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

8. In what way was summer camp a formative experience in Van der Kolk's trajectory toward his chosen career?

9. What development in the early 1990s revolutionized our understanding of the way the human brain processes information?

10. What specific role does the right brain perform in the aftermath of trauma?

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