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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 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?
(a) The Periaqueductal Yellow.
(b) The Periaqueductal Black.
(c) The Periaqueductal Blue.
(d) The Periaqueductal Gray.

2. At the end of Chapter 7, "Getting on the Same Wavelength: Attachment and Attunement," Van der Kolk asserts that which poet must have had somewhat attentive parents?
(a) W. H. Auden.
(b) e. e. cummings.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) Walt Whitman.

3. Which score on the ACE questionnaire would indicate the largest risk of negative effects from childhood trauma?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 10.
(d) 5.

4. Which attachment strategy is NOT classified among the group of organized attachment strategies?
(a) Disorganized.
(b) Secure.
(c) Avoidant.
(d) Anxious.

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?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 3/4.
(c) 1.
(d) 4.

Short Answer Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?

2. Van der Kolk realized when he read about Meier's experiments that just like the animals, his patients had been robbed of what response?

3. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?

4. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?

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

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