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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. Like manic-depressive illness, _______ usually begins late in adolescence and early adulthood and shares similar full-blown psychotic symptoms.
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Borderline personality disorder.
(c) Cyclythymes.
(d) Unipolar depression.

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

3. What researchers lived with an Amish family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania while studying at Yale?
(a) Dr. Samuel Ross.
(b) Dr. Janice Egeland.
(c) Dr. Neil Risch.
(d) Dr. Timothy Hutchins.

4. Patty Duke's panic attacks became very clear to her around what age?
(a) 2.
(b) 15.
(c) 6.
(d) 8.

5. What did Patty Duke's father call her as a child?
(a) Pattycake.
(b) Anny-Boo.
(c) Anna.
(d) Ree-Ree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the way Patty attempted suicide the majority of the times?

2. What is the term for patients whose mood changes collide with one another, from month to month, day to day, sometimes even within the same day?

3. What do some mental health experts refer to "the mixed states" as?

4. Who was Patty's first husband?

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

(see the answer key)

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