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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?
(a) Skydiving and smoking.
(b) Binge drinking and riding his bicycle.
(c) Binge drinking and riding his motorcycle.
(d) Sleeping and eating.

2. In what year was the object issued that a group of veteran patients of Van der Kolk's gave him for Christmas one year?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1917.

3. In the early 1980s, the standard psychiatry textbook stated that incest occurred about once in every how many women?
(a) 10 thousand.
(b) 10 million.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 1 thousand.

4. When Prozac was introduced in 1988, Van der Kolk realized that it was a drug that helped people be what?
(a) Happy.
(b) Present.
(c) Grateful.
(d) Optimistic.

5. What types of techniques became possible in the early 1990s and helped humans understand the way the brain processes information?
(a) Electrostatic.
(b) Hydrotherapy.
(c) Sound therapy.
(d) Brain-imaging.

6. What is NOT a quality that results from an extended period of elevated stress hormone levels?
(a) Immunity.
(b) Rage.
(c) Depression.
(d) Fear.

7. In what decade was Thorazine first discovered and marketed?
(a) The 1950s.
(b) The 1930s.
(c) The 1960s.
(d) The 1970s.

8. 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) Aggressive.
(b) Natural.
(c) Invasive.
(d) Affordable.

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

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

11. On which symptom of Tom's did Van der Kolk focus his initial treatment?
(a) Insomnia.
(b) Incontinence.
(c) Facial tics.
(d) Nightmares.

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

13. When trauma survivors experience flashbacks, which part of their brains are the only areas to light up?
(a) The hippocampus.
(b) The amygdala.
(c) The right side of the brain.
(d) The left side of the brain.

14. What is NOT an area of the brain pointed out within the set of images in Chapter 3: Looking into the Brain: The Neuroscience Revolution?
(a) Right limbic area.
(b) Hippocampus.
(c) Broca's area.
(d) Visual cortex.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom refused to comply with which type of treatment prescribed by Van der Kolk?

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

3. In what year did Van der Kolk meet Tom?

4. How many days after 9/11 did Van der Kolk visit family friends who had been near the World Trade Center that morning?

5. In Charles Darwin's book entitled The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, he asserts that all but which of the following parts of the body communicate along the same nerve?

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