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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. Van der Kolk asserts that "the memory of" what "is stored as muscle tension or feelings of disintegration" (265)?
(a) Fear.
(b) Abuse.
(c) Helplessness.
(d) Pain.

2. When Van der Kolk asked Noam what the object at the bottom of his drawing was, Noam said it was what kind of object?
(a) A traffic cone.
(b) A swimming pool.
(c) A trampoline.
(d) A pair of wings.

3. Generally, a memory is captured more vividly if more of what substance is secreted at the time the memory is made?
(a) Adrenaline.
(b) Pheromones.
(c) Dopamine.
(d) Serotonin.

4. What are the only people in Noam's drawing doing within his picture of the scene of 9/11?
(a) Crying.
(b) Flying.
(c) Running.
(d) Jumping.

5. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?
(a) Hypnosis.
(b) Pharmaceuticals.
(c) Behavioral Therapy.
(d) Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many days before Julian would have been eligible for full benefits was he discharged from the military?

2. Which score on the ACE questionnaire would indicate the largest risk of negative effects from childhood trauma?

3. Which kind of ACE scores are associated with the greatest chances of problems relating to trauma?

4. In what year did Charles Darwin write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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

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