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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Van der Kolk states that when people are faced with danger, they secrete what substance?
(a) Dopamine.
(b) Pheromones.
(c) Sweat.
(d) Stress hormones.

2. What is the second option presented to an autonomic nervous system trying to navigate a dangerous situation?
(a) Freeze or collapse.
(b) Fight or flight.
(c) Neuroception.
(d) Social engagement.

3. From what location did Noam watch a plane slam into the World Trade Center on the morning of 9/11?
(a) His elementary school classroom.
(b) The bank.
(c) The grocery store.
(d) His high school classroom.

4. In what year was the diagnosis of PTSD added to the American Psychiatric Association's array of diagnoses?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1980.

5. What color was the object Noam drew at the bottom of his picture that piqued Van der Kolk's interest?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) Black.
(d) Yellow.

6. 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 pair of wings.
(d) A trampoline.

7. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 30.
(d) 21.

8. In Chapter 2: Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain, Van der Kolk discusses being a witness to which transition in the psychiatric field?
(a) Talk therapy to pharmaceuticals.
(b) Confinement to group therapy.
(c) Pharmaceuticals to behavior therapy.
(d) Electroshock therapy to talk therapy.

9. In 1982, Van der Kolk accepted a position at a mental health center in what state?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) New York.
(c) Massachusetts.
(d) Maine.

10. At what university did Steve Porges work as a researcher when he developed the Polyvagal Theory?
(a) The University of Delaware.
(b) The University of Maryland.
(c) The University of Minnesota.
(d) The University of Massachusetts.

11. What was the name of Van der Kolk's "great teacher" who taught his students to be "skeptical about textbooks" (19)?
(a) Saul Zaentz.
(b) Abram Kardiner.
(c) Elvin Semrad.
(d) Paul Harrington.

12. Who coined the phrase "the compulsion to repeat" (34) in the world of psychiatry?
(a) Lacan.
(b) Maslow.
(c) Jung.
(d) Freud.

13. Van der Kolk states that "the way medicine approaches human suffering has always been determined by the" what "available at any given time" (31)?
(a) Technology.
(b) Science.
(c) Religion.
(d) Medicine.

14. How many days after the events of September 11, 2001 did Noam draw the picture contained in the text?
(a) 365.
(b) 14.
(c) 1.
(d) 30.

15. Van der Kolk claims that the solution for survivors of trauma must include helping people to alter the inner sensory landscape of" (72) what?
(a) Their emotions.
(b) Their bodies.
(c) Their thoughts.
(d) Their goals.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?

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

4. What did Tom do for a living after he returned from Vietnam?

5. Van der Kolk states that he grew up in which country during the postwar years?

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