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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. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Broca's area.
(b) Right limbic area.
(c) Visual cortex.
(d) Hippocampus.

2. What is the third option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?
(a) Neuroception.
(b) Social engagement.
(c) Fight or flight.
(d) Freeze or collapse.

3. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?
(a) Happy.
(b) Present.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Grateful.

4. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Jung.
(d) Freud.

5. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) New York.
(b) Massachusetts.
(c) Maine.
(d) Pennsylvania.

Short Answer Questions

1. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?

2. Van der Kolk states that he wrote the book to serve "as both a guide" (14) and what other object?

3. What term does Van der Kolk apply to the "primitive" (88) part of the brain where PTSD sufferers experienced all activity when subjected to the gaze of others?

4. Van der Kolk states that it has always been obvious to him that "the key to healing was understanding how" what "works" (12)?

5. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

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