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Choose the best answer to each of the following questions. This quiz is meant to test your comprehension of the material in the module you have just read. An answer key is provided at the end of this 20-question quiz that will allow you to calculate your quiz results.
- Which of the following statements is more accurate?
a. Humanitarian workers are usually not affected by traumatic events because they are working to help others.
b. Humanitarian workers, just like other people, may experience a wide variety of physical and emotional reactions after traumatic events.
- Recent research suggests which of the following:
a. Most humanitarian workers in the field, whether expatriate or national, will experience at least one seriously frightening or disturbing incident during the course of their work.
b. At least 90% of humanitarian workers will hear about something traumatic happening to someone they knew personally during their assignment.
c. At least 25% of humanitarian workers in a complex humanitarian emergency (CHE) can expect to undergo a potentially life-threatening experience.
d. All of the above.
- Which of the following is not a recent research finding regarding humanitarian workers' reactions and behavior:
a. Approximately 15-25% of humanitarian workers in complex humanitarian emergency situations are likely to experience significant symptoms of depression, anxiety, and/or post-traumatic stress disorder at any given point in time.
b. At least 90% of humanitarian workers increase their use of alcohol and drugs to hazardous levels during an assignment in a complex humanitarian emergency situation.
- Stress can be defined as any demand or change that the human system (mind, body, spirit) is required to meet and respond to.
a. True
b. False
- Stress becomes trauma when the demands of the stressful events exceed our coping resources and result in severe distress.
a. True
b. False
- There are some types of events that are so awful that they are traumatic for almost everyone who experiences them:
a. True
b. False
- An event that is traumatic for one person is always traumatic for another person:
a. True: Everyone finds the same types of events traumatic to the same extent.
b. False: What the event means to you can be just as important as the event itself. Some events are likely to be experienced as traumatic by some people but not by others.
- Which of the following is not a typical reaction in our bodies shortly after a traumatic event:
a. Increased adrenaline in the bloodstream
b. Increased platelets in the bloodstream
c. Increased carbon monoxide in the bloodstream
d. Increased endorphins in the bloodstream
- A traumatic event can impact which of your thoughts, feelings and beliefs?
a. How safe you feel
b. How trustworthy you think other people are
c. How much control you feel like you have over your life
d. How worthwhile you feel you are as a person
e. All of the thoughts, feelings, and beliefs listed above can be impacted by a traumatic event.
- In the days and weeks after exposure to a traumatic event, most people experience trauma reactions:
a. True – these reactions are the result of normal and adaptive survival mechanisms and can contain elements of post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, anger, and grief.
b. False – only 5% of people experience any trauma reactions following a traumatic event.
- Which of the following is not a common symptom of trauma?
a. Feeling jumpy and nervous
b. Thinking about the traumatic event often
c. Having difficulty concentrating
d. Going blind
e. Feeling disconnected from people and/or God
- Which of the following statements is more accurate?
a. There are many commonalities in people’s reactions to traumatic events across different cultures (e.g., people’s physiological responses to dangerous and threatening events are broadly similar all over the world). However, there are also some important differences among cultures in how various events tend to be experienced and how trauma is expressed and understood.
b. Everyone around the world, regardless of where they come from, experiences and expresses traumatic events in exactly the same way. There are no significant cross-cultural differences in common trauma reactions.
- Which of the following factors increases the likelihood that you will experience a severe and/or enduring trauma reaction after a traumatic event?
a. Being the victim of an act of human cruelty (e.g., an armed attack)
b. Having a number of other stressful events occurring in your life at the same time (e.g., moving internationally and the death of someone close to you)
c. Having previously experienced severe trauma reactions or a psychiatric illness (such as clinical depression)
d. Being socially isolated, and having few friends or family members you feel connected to
e. All of the above increase the likelihood that you will experience a severe and/or enduring trauma reaction after a traumatic event.
- Which of the following statements is more accurate?
a. Trauma reactions never occur in response to witnessing and/or hearing about traumatic events experienced by others.
b. Interaction with people who have experienced traumatic events places helpers at risk of experiencing some form of secondary traumatic stress response. Helpers can experience vicarious trauma.
- Which of the following is not a helpful way to take care of yourself after you have experienced a traumatic event:
a. Review what you know about stress, trauma and coping
b. Get some exercise
c. Drink six shots of vodka
d. Talk about what happened and how you feel with someone you trust
e. Allow yourself some extra time to accomplish ordinary tasks
- Which of the following is not a common spiritual trauma reaction
a. Feeling like your worldview has changed, and that you see the world differently than you did before
b. Being visited by an angelic being who says that you are a prophet
c. Feeling discouraged, as if you have lost hope
d. Feeling like life just doesn’t make sense
e. Struggling to find answers to hard questions related to issues like suffering and the existence of evil
- Which of the following is a helpful way to take care of yourself after a traumatic event:
a. Find a casino and have some fun gambling
b. Go out drinking with your friends and get very drunk
c. Decide you hate your job and tell your boss you’re quitting
d. Help yourself relax by reading a light-hearted novel, spending time with family, or writing about your experiences
e. Watch a rousing action movie full of car chases, shoot-outs, and lots of violence
- Which if the following is not a very helpful way to care for someone else who has just been through a traumatic event:
a. Find out if they are injured and need medical attention
b. Help them contact relatives or friends
c. Ask them how they’re doing and allow them to talk about what happened if they wish
d. Tell them a detailed story about the traumatic event that happened to you last year, and then tell them that they should be grateful that what has just happened to them wasn’t worse.
e. Offer to help with practical tasks like cooking, cleaning, or minding children.
- Which of the following might be helpful things to try if you are very distressed, anxious, and upset?
a. Cry
b. Perform a repetitive activity you find absorbing, like completing a puzzle
c. Watch a funny movie
d. Do a deep breathing exercise
e. All of the above may be helpful
- Which of the following trauma reactions is a sign that you should seek help from a physician or mental health professional after a traumatic event:
a. Feeling suicidal
b. Having heart palpitations, chest pain, or trouble breathing
c. Complete amnesia – not being able to remember any part of the traumatic event
d. Feeling like you might hurt yourself or someone else
e. All of the above
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