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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. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) Toward the start.
(b) At the beginning.
(c) In the middle.
(d) Toward the end.

2. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?
(a) Incest.
(b) Rape.
(c) Child abuse.
(d) Kidnapping.

3. Near the end of Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution, Van der Kolk states, "When something reminds traumatized people of the past, their right brain reacts as if the traumatic event" is what?
(a) Will happen again.
(b) Has come to an end.
(c) Never existed.
(d) Is still happening.

4. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?
(a) Thoughtful.
(b) Active.
(c) Passive.
(d) Creative.

5. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?

2. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?

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

4. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

5. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What traumatic event did Noam, the five-year-old discussed in Chapter 4, "Running For Your Life" witness?

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

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

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

7. What problems began to manifest in Tom's life despite his appearance of an easy transition back to his normal life upon returning from combat?

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

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

10. 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"?

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