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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Paths to Recovery and Epilogue: Choices to Be Made.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that the emotional brain expresses itself by using what medium?
(a) Physical reactions.
(b) Tears.
(c) Facial expressions.
(d) Feelings.

2. Van der Kolk asserts that performing what action around a traumatic memory will not necessarily resolve its negative effects?
(a) Writing about it.
(b) Remembering it.
(c) Undergoing hypnosis.
(d) Speaking about it.

3. How many organized attachment strategies have been identified within the methods infants use to get at least some of their needs met?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

4. How many survivors of 9/11 participated in the study described in Chapter 14, "Language: Miracle and Tyranny"?
(a) 100.
(b) 225.
(c) 75.
(d) 500.

5. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Hippocampus.
(b) Broca's area.
(c) Visual cortex.
(d) Right limbic area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?

2. Bessel Van der Kolk names Janet as one of his most important teachers. What was Janet's first name?

3. Victims of child abuse generally receive about how many unrelated diagnoses over the course of their psychiatric treatment?

4. What activity did Annie find to be very challenging but very helpful in her recovery from trauma?

5. In what decade did the University of Chicago professor Joe Kamiya begin to study the use of neurofeedback?

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