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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Imprint of Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
(a) Noam's mother.
(b) Noam's older sister.
(c) Noam's older brother.
(d) Noam's cousin.

2. What is NOT an institution that often results in trauma survivors' needs being dismissed?
(a) Family.
(b) Economics.
(c) Law.
(d) Power.

3. From what country did the writer of All Quiet on the Western Front hail?
(a) England.
(b) Sweden.
(c) The United States.
(d) France.

4. Chapter 12, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering,” begins with the assertion that scientific interest in trauma has been experiencing wild fluctuations for how many years?
(a) 100.
(b) 30.
(c) 150.
(d) 75.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of expression did Marilyn draw on all of the people in her family portrait?

2. In what year did Van der Kolk and a colleague conduct a study of traumatic versus benign memories?

3. What type of abuse most often results in total memory loss?

4. In what year was the DSM-IV published?

5. What diagnosis did Van der Kolk and his colleagues try to add to the DSM-IV before its publication?

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