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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 volunteers participated in the study Van der Kolk and a colleague conducted around memories?
(a) 39.
(b) 12.
(c) 76.
(d) 52.

2. In Chapter 8: “Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect,” Van der Kolk claims that victims of sexual abuse are often diagnosed with ADD if a doctor focuses on which symptom?
(a) Amnesia.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Restlessness.

3. How old was Maria when she first came to Van der Kolk's residential treatment center?
(a) 40.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 21.

4. In what year did Van der Kolk and a colleague conduct a study of traumatic versus benign memories?
(a) 2001.
(b) 1963.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1994.

5. How does Van der Kolk describe the patterns of a survivor of unresolved trauma?
(a) Erratic.
(b) Non-linear.
(c) Linear.
(d) Cyclical.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement," Van der Kolk asserts that which poet must have had somewhat attentive parents?

2. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?

3. The system that makes memories fails if the experience is infused with too much what?

4. In what year was the final piece of scientific literature published about the effects of combat trauma?

5. Between 19 and 34% of survivors of what type of abuse repress all memories of the trauma?

Short Essay Questions

1. What aspect of a patient's trauma does not need to be known to Van der Kolk before he can treat the patient?

2. Discuss an instance when a particular government entered into an adversarial relationship with their own veterans of war.

3. Describe the three organized attachment strategies and the differences among them.

4. What does Van der Kolk mean when he states, "Traumatized people simultaneously remember too little and too much" (179)?

5. Discuss an instance when Van der Kolk includes sensory details in order to convey the impact of trauma on young minds.

6. In what way does the epigraph included with Chapter 7: Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement depict the theme of community?

7. Describe Maria's feelings about the skills her favorite type of therapy was able to teach her?

8. What are ACEs?

9. What book published in 1929 refocused the public's attention back onto the issue of trauma?

10. What is the significance of Van der Kolk's frequent study of Janet's case reports over time?

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