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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Who Gets Manic-Depressive Illness?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?
(a) 20.
(b) 60.
(c) 18.
(d) 12.

2. When Patty was about 12, where was her mother living?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) Queens.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) Brooklyn.

3. Until what era was mental illness considered to be rooted in psychological trauma?
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1940s.
(c) 1950s.
(d) 1970s.

4. Who was the sister who raised Patty Duke's mother?
(a) Gertrude.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Lizzie.
(d) Eleanor.

5. In studies of twins where one identical twin had manic-depressive disorder, what is the percentage of cases where the other twin also developed it?
(a) 90.
(b) 50.
(c) 60.
(d) 80.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Patty when her parents split up?

2. What is the name of the forty-two-year-old mother of two who voluntarily participated in the study for winter depression?

3. Who is the Armenian-born psychiatrist dedicated to studying personality and mood disorders who is referred to in Chapter 2?

4. What is the name of the cemetery which Patty passed going to visit her mother where she always had panic attacks?

5. In 1985, Dr. Akiskal reported results of a study on how many children or younger siblings of adult bipolar patients?

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