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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four: The Imprint of Trauma.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is NOT an institution that often results in trauma survivors' needs being dismissed?
(a) Power.
(b) Family.
(c) Law.
(d) Economics.

2. 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 bipolar disorder if a doctor focuses on which symptom?
(a) Irritability.
(b) Sleeplessness.
(c) Lethargy.
(d) Mood swings.

3. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?
(a) 1836.
(b) 1872.
(c) 1854.
(d) 1901.

4. How old was Van der Kolk when he attended a summer camp and became interested in medicine?
(a) 14.
(b) 16.
(c) 11.
(d) 9.

5. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chapter 12, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering,” begins with the assertion that scientific interest in trauma has been experiencing wild fluctuations for how many years?

2. Van der Kalk states that the "essence of trauma is" (195) all but which of the following?

3. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?

4. 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?

5. 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?

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