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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. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 30.
(d) 21.

2. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

3. 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.

4. 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) Right limbic area.
(d) Visual cortex.

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) Under one-quarter.
(b) Over three-quarters.
(c) Over one-half.
(d) Over two-thirds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?

2. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

3. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?

4. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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"?

10. 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?

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