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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. Which autoimmune disease did Marilyn contract, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) Rheumatoid arthritis.
(b) Multiple sclerosis.
(c) HIV.
(d) Lupus.

2. Before the outbreak of a particular war refocused society's attention on trauma, what method of psychological treatment had risen to prominence?
(a) Talk therapy.
(b) Hypnosis.
(c) Pharmaceuticals.
(d) Electroshock.

3. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1970s.
(c) The 1930s.
(d) The 1960s.

4. What percentage of the fibers in the vagus nerve are afferent, meaning that they travel from the body up to the brain?
(a) 60.
(b) 80.
(c) 40.
(d) 20.

5. While Julian was serving in the military, he remembered that he had been sexually abused as a child by which member of his community?
(a) A priest.
(b) A coach.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A bus driver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?

2. Which attachment strategy is NOT classified among the group of organized attachment strategies?

3. What object is moved back and forth during a session of EMDR?

4. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?

5. What sole activity did Van der Kolk do with Annie during her first visit?

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