View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: The Minds of Children.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 8: “Trapped in Relationships: The Cost of Abuse and Neglect,” Van der Kolk claims that victims of sexual abuse are often diagnosed with clinical depression if a doctor focuses on which symptom?
(a) Dissociation.
(b) Listlessness.
(c) Despair.
(d) Ennui.

4. From what borough of New York City did Noam flee with member of his family on 9/11?
(a) Queens.
(b) Staten Island.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) The Bronx.

5. What is NOT a trauma to which the woman featured in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self was subjected?
(a) Kidnapping.
(b) Incest.
(c) Rape.
(d) Child abuse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom is the epigraph for Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement" attributed?

3. In what way does Van der Kolk classify Maria's identity?

4. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

5. How many millions of children are spending all or part of their childhoods in foster care in the United States at any given time?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 252 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample