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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two: This is Your Brain on Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In which war did the veterans fight who gave Van der Kolk a particular gift for Christmas?
(a) The Vietnam War.
(b) World War II.
(c) World War I.
(d) The Korean War.

2. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?
(a) Brain-imaging.
(b) Hydrotherapy.
(c) Sound therapy.
(d) Electrostatic.

3. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?
(a) 1 million.
(b) 1 thousand.
(c) 10 thousand.
(d) 10 million.

4. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?
(a) 1.
(b) 365.
(c) 30.
(d) 14.

5. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) The University of Massachusetts.
(b) The University of Delaware.
(c) The University of Maryland.
(d) The University of Minnesota.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?

2. How many fundamental avenues does Van der Kolk claim can "palliate or even reverse the damage" (13) caused by trauma?

3. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?

4. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?

5. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

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