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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Prologue: Facing Trauma and Part One: The Rediscovery of Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Behavioral Therapy.
(c) Hypnosis.
(d) Pharmaceuticals.

2. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?
(a) The human digestive system.
(b) The human limbic system.
(c) The human brain.
(d) The human organism.

3. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?
(a) The fight/flight response.
(b) The defensive response.
(c) The empathetic response.
(d) The self-preservation response.

4. What sort of radioactive substance was used in the test Van der Kolk conducted on a number of subjects?
(a) Plasma.
(b) Saline solution.
(c) Milk.
(d) Oxygen.

5. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?
(a) 1998.
(b) 2008.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1988.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?

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

4. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?

5. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?

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