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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. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 8.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 12.

2. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?
(a) Binge drinking and riding his bicycle.
(b) Sleeping and eating.
(c) Binge drinking and riding his motorcycle.
(d) Skydiving and smoking.

3. How old was Noam when he watched a plane slam into the World Trade Center on 9/11?
(a) 12.
(b) 16.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

4. 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)?
(a) Over three-quarters.
(b) Over one-half.
(c) Under one-quarter.
(d) Over two-thirds.

5. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?
(a) The grocery store.
(b) His elementary school classroom.
(c) His high school classroom.
(d) The bank.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

2. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?

3. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?

4. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?

5. What is the third option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?

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