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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. In what city was Humboldt University located?
(a) Philadelphia.
(b) Boston.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Sacramento.

2. How many conditions must be met in order for the brain to do its main job?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 8.

3. Victims of child abuse generally receive about how many unrelated diagnoses over the course of their psychiatric treatment?
(a) 3 or 4.
(b) 9 or 10.
(c) 5 or 6.
(d) 7 or 8.

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

5. While Julian was serving in the military, he remembered that he had been sexually abused as a child by which member of his community?
(a) A bus driver.
(b) A coach.
(c) A teacher.
(d) A priest.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the woman featured in the discussion of massage therapy in Chapter 6: Losing Your Body, Losing Your Self?

2. Which autoimmune disease did Marilyn contract, according to Van der Kolk?

3. How many organized attachment strategies have been identified within the methods infants use to get at least some of their needs met?

4. Before the outbreak of a particular war refocused society's attention on trauma, what method of psychological treatment had risen to prominence?

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

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