View a FREE sample

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 group(s) of research subjects looking at the photograph of kids watching their father noted danger present in the situation?
(a) Only normal.
(b) Only traumatized.
(c) Neither traumatized nor normal.
(d) Both traumatized and normal.

2. The subjects of Van der Kolk's study of memories included how many people who had been abused as children?
(a) 15.
(b) 35.
(c) 25.
(d) 5.

3. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?
(a) 8.
(b) 10.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. What piece of furniture did Van der Kolk use to represent his father when he worked with Pesso?
(a) A teapot.
(b) A couch.
(c) A lamp.
(d) A table.

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 teacher.
(c) A coach.
(d) A bus driver.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?

2. Yoga helps to reteach people how to notice which elements of their own experiences?

3. Van der Kolk states that "we now know that" what fraction of people who seek psychiatric care "have been assaulted, abandoned, neglected, or even raped as children, or have witnessed violence in their families" (28)?

4. One of the patients Van der Kolk uses as an example of EMDR's power was raped at what age by her father?

5. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 267 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample