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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which autoimmune disease did Marilyn contract, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) Lupus.
(b) HIV.
(c) Multiple sclerosis.
(d) Rheumatoid arthritis.

2. In what year was the DSM-IV published?
(a) 2010.
(b) 2000.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1990.

3. 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) Walt Whitman.
(c) T. S. Eliot.
(d) e. e. cummings.

4. Between 19 and 34% of survivors of what type of abuse repress all memories of the trauma?
(a) Physical.
(b) Mental.
(c) Emotional.
(d) Sexual.

5. Maria told Van der Kolk that working with horses had allowed her to feel what emotion for the very first time?
(a) Safety.
(b) Compassion.
(c) Empathy.
(d) Love.

6. The majority of the patients previously diagnosed as having Borderline Personality Disorder reported being the victim of abuse before what age?
(a) 11.
(b) 14.
(c) 5.
(d) 7.

7. Chapter 12, “The Unbearable Heaviness of Remembering,” begins with the assertion that scientific interest in trauma has been experiencing wild fluctuations for how many years?
(a) 150.
(b) 100.
(c) 30.
(d) 75.

8. Van der Kalk states that the "essence of trauma is" (195) all but which of the following?
(a) Invisible.
(b) Unbearable.
(c) Overwhelming.
(d) Unbelievable.

9. How does Van der Kolk describe the patterns of a survivor of unresolved trauma?
(a) Linear.
(b) Cyclical.
(c) Non-linear.
(d) Erratic.

10. Van der Kolk asserts that performing what action around a traumatic memory will not necessarily resolve its negative effects?
(a) Speaking about it.
(b) Writing about it.
(c) Undergoing hypnosis.
(d) Remembering it.

11. In what year did Janet publish "the first book-length account of" (187) a particular subject?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1889.
(d) 1901.

12. What is NOT an institution that often results in trauma survivors' needs being dismissed?
(a) Law.
(b) Power.
(c) Economics.
(d) Family.

13. How many days before Julian would have been eligible for full benefits was he discharged from the military?
(a) 60.
(b) 10.
(c) 30.
(d) 20.

14. What does the letter A in the acronym ACE stand for?
(a) Adverse.
(b) Adversarial.
(c) Anxious.
(d) Accessible.

15. In what state did Van der Kolk work with kids in the Children's Center at a particular mental health center?
(a) Florida.
(b) Maine.
(c) New York.
(d) Massachusetts.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which group(s) of research subjects looking at the photograph of kids watching their father noted danger present in the situation?

2. The outbreak of which war in the early twentieth century led to a renewed focus on the subject of trauma?

3. Maria told Van der Kolk that equine therapy had helped her make what types of connections with another living creature?

4. Van der Kolk states that it is common for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to take what action in regards to their memories of the abuse?

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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