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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 activity did Maria engage in during the years she worked with horses?
(a) Racing.
(b) Blacksmithing.
(c) Dressage.
(d) Shoveling out the stalls.

2. A character from which novel provides the quote for the epigraph of Chapter 11, "Uncovering Secrets: The Problems of Traumatic Memory"?
(a) The Sisters Brothers.
(b) All Quiet on the Western Front.
(c) Lonesome Dove.
(d) The Red Badge of Courage.

3. The subjects of Van der Kolk's study of memories included how many people who had been abused as children?
(a) 15.
(b) 5.
(c) 35.
(d) 25.

4. The system that makes memories fails if the experience is infused with too much what?
(a) Horror.
(b) Context.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Guilt.

5. In what year was the DSM-IV published?
(a) 1990.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1970.
(d) 2010.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which kind of ACE scores are associated with the greatest chances of problems relating to trauma?

2. Van der Kolk asserts that performing what action around a traumatic memory will not necessarily resolve its negative effects?

3. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?

4. What term did the Southborough Report seek to abolish in the diagnoses of war veterans?

5. In what way does Van der Kolk classify Maria's identity?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Before World War I began, what was the most prominently used method of providing mental health support?

4. Who was Pierre Janet and what is the name of the book he wrote that strongly influenced Van der Kolk?

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

6. What was the source of the trauma experienced by the military serviceman named Julian?

7. How old was Maria at the time Van der Kolk began working with her and what situations had she been in before?

8. What sort of therapy was prescribed to Maria when other methods were ineffective?

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

10. Describe an instance when Van der Kolk points out the irony in a particular societal situation.

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