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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
2. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?
3. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?
4. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
5. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which of Tom's symptoms did Van der Kolk decide to actively treat and why?
2. What are the three levels of response available to humans facing stressful situations, according to Steve Porges?
3. In the prologue of the text, Van der Kolk names the three main avenues of treatment available to survivors of trauma. What are they?
4. What specific role does the right brain perform in the aftermath of trauma?
5. What three elements of the body did Charles Darwin assert communicated by using the same nerve?
6. What traumatic event did Noam, the five-year-old discussed in Chapter 4, "Running For Your Life" witness?
7. Discuss Bessel Van der Kolk's use of a metaphor within the dedication of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
8. What aspects of Noam's traumatic experience made it unlikely that he would suffer lasting negative effects throughout his life?
9. What conclusion did Van der Kolk come to after the experiment involving the human gaze?
10. What is Van der Kolk's purpose for including a story about Tom's refusal to take his prescribed medication?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does Van der Kolk’s use of the first and second person point of view serve the purposes of the text? Discuss how Van der Kolk’s choice of point of view helps to advance the treatment of at least three particular themes within the text.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss Van der Kolk’s use of Aristotle's appeals within the text of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. How does Van der Kolk use each of the three appeals to persuade the reader of argumentative points central to the tenets of the work?
Essay Topic 3
What message does Van der Kolk send within the pages of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma concerning the link between the body and the human brain?
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