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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. In what way does Van der Kolk classify Maria's identity?
2. 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?
3. The outbreak of which war in the early twentieth century led to a renewed focus on the subject of trauma?
4. From what country did the writer of All Quiet on the Western Front hail?
5. How many years before the publication of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma did Mary Main and her colleagues coin the term "disorganized attachment" (116)?
Short Essay Questions
1. Discuss an instance when Van der Kolk includes sensory details in order to convey the impact of trauma on young minds.
2. What is the significance of Van der Kolk's frequent study of Janet's case reports over time?
3. What are ACEs?
4. What is "Auden's Rule" (125) and what is its purpose?
5. What book published in 1929 refocused the public's attention back onto the issue of trauma?
6. What aspect of a patient's trauma does not need to be known to Van der Kolk before he can treat the patient?
7. What does Van der Kolk mean when he states, "Traumatized people simultaneously remember too little and too much" (179)?
8. Who was Pierre Janet and what is the name of the book he wrote that strongly influenced Van der Kolk?
9. Discuss an instance when a particular government entered into an adversarial relationship with their own veterans of war.
10. What events are more likely to happen in the future of someone who earns a high ACE score?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How is the theme of invisibility portrayed in The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma? Examine Van der Kolk's treatment of and messages regarding invisibility throughout the work.
Essay Topic 2
How is the topic of memory treated within The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma and how does its treatment relate to the book's depicted messages?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss how and why Van der Kolk instills three different humanist messages into the narrative of The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
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