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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. Van der Kolk describes Steven Meier's experiments using electric shock with which types of animals?
(a) Birds.
(b) Fish.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Monkeys.

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

3. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1930s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1970s.
(d) The 1950s.

4. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) In the middle.
(b) Toward the end.
(c) Toward the start.
(d) At the beginning.

5. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?
(a) At least half of their treatment.
(b) Only part of their treatment during emergencies.
(c) The main treatment.
(d) An adjunct in their overall treatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?

2. 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?

3. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?

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

5. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?

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