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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. Noam, his father, and which other member of his family fled together from the wreckage of the World Trade Center?
(a) Noam's older sister.
(b) Noam's mother.
(c) Noam's older brother.
(d) Noam's cousin.

2. The function of the brain, Van der Kolk asserts, is to ensure what?
(a) Survival.
(b) Logic.
(c) Homeostasis.
(d) Solutions to problems.

3. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?
(a) The Air Force.
(b) The Marines.
(c) The Army.
(d) The Navy.

4. What part of her client's body was the massage therapist holding when her client called out to see where she had gone?
(a) Her feet.
(b) Her neck.
(c) Her back.
(d) Her head.

5. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became a veterinarian.
(b) He became an accountant.
(c) He became a lawyer.
(d) He became a doctor.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?

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

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