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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. Which level of the autonomic nervous system's response to danger is characterized by actions like calling for help?
(a) Freeze or collapse.
(b) Neuroception.
(c) Fight or flight.
(d) Social engagement.

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

3. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?
(a) The amygdala.
(b) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(c) The frontal lobe.
(d) The hippocampus.

4. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?
(a) A pair of wings.
(b) A swimming pool.
(c) A trampoline.
(d) A traffic cone.

5. What is NOT one of the actions Van der Kolk says he hopes the reader will take in relation to trauma?
(a) Face it.
(b) Prevent it.
(c) Dismiss it.
(d) Explore it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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

3. The function of the brain, Van der Kolk asserts, is to ensure what?

4. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?

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

(see the answer key)

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