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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of role does Van der Kolk say Noam had been able to take in his own rescue, saving him from deeper trauma?
(a) Active.
(b) Creative.
(c) Passive.
(d) Thoughtful.

3. One in how many Americans now takes an antidepressant medication, according to Van der Kolk?
(a) 10.
(b) 7.
(c) 5.
(d) 20.

4. How many patients did Van der Kolk get to describe their trauma while having their brains scanned when the technology first became available?
(a) 12.
(b) 8.
(c) 3.
(d) 6.

5. Van der Kolk asserts that SSRIs such as Prozac should act as what element in the comprehensive treatment plan of a survivor of trauma?
(a) Only part of their treatment during emergencies.
(b) At least half of their treatment.
(c) The main treatment.
(d) An adjunct in their overall treatment.

Short Answer Questions

1. Tom, the patient Van der Kolk describes in Chapter 1: Lessons From Vietnam Veterans, had been in which branch of the military?

2. What two activities were the only ones that could calm Tom when he returned from Vietnam?

3. During what period of Darwin's career did he write The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals?

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

5. In which part of the brain did PTSD sufferers show no activity when shown images of people looking at them with direct gazes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What major transition in the world of psychiatry did Van der Kolk get to witness, as described in Chapter 2, "Revolutions in Understanding Mind and Brain"?

2. What development in the early 1990s revolutionized our understanding of the way the human brain processes information?

3. What does Van der Kolk mean when he says he hopes that the book serves as not only a guide, but as an invitation?

4. What type of assessment did Van der Kolk provide to Noam to figure out whether he was likely to experience lasting trauma?

5. What is the meaning of the term "neuroception"?

6. Who developed the Polyvagal Theory and for which academic institution did he work at the time?

7. What does the cage symbolize within Van der Kolk's story about Steven Meier's experiments?

8. What conclusion did Van der Kolk come to after the experiment involving the human gaze?

9. Which of Tom's symptoms did Van der Kolk decide to actively treat and why?

10. What specific role does the right brain perform in the aftermath of trauma?

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