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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five: Paths to Recovery and Epilogue: Choices to Be Made.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What diagnosis did Van der Kolk and his colleagues try to add to the DSM-IV before its publication?
(a) Trauma Disorder.
(b) Complex PTSD.
(c) Attachment Disorder.
(d) Simple Anxiety.

2. At the end of Chapter 2: Revolution in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk explains that when he saw the limitations of drugs in the treatment of trauma, he began to look for treatments that were more what?
(a) Natural.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Affordable.
(d) Invasive.

3. One of the patients Van der Kolk uses as an example of EMDR's power was raped at what age by her father?
(a) 11.
(b) 7.
(c) 16.
(d) 14.

4. Janet is said to have published "the first book-length account of" (187) what subject?
(a) Incest.
(b) Child abuse.
(c) The role of genetics in violent behavior.
(d) Traumatic stress.

5. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?
(a) He became a veterinarian.
(b) He became a doctor.
(c) He became an accountant.
(d) He became a lawyer.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Victims of child abuse generally receive about how many unrelated diagnoses over the course of their psychiatric treatment?

3. What is NOT an element described by W. H. Auden as one that resents "approaches that are too intense" (125)?

4. In the study of people who had escaped from the Twin Towers on 9/11, what was reported to be the third most effective treatment for dealing with trauma?

5. Generally, a memory is captured more vividly if more of what substance is secreted at the time the memory is made?

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