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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Families Suffer and Learn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What psychiatric hospital did Patty's first husband take her to in Los Angeles?
(a) Whispering Oaks.
(b) Mt. Sinai.
(c) Bellevue.
(d) Green Acres.

2. Who is the controversial former Prime Minister of Israel referred to in Chapter 8?
(a) Ishmael Chaim.
(b) Israel Harvey.
(c) Chaim Potok.
(d) Menachem Begin.

3. What is the name of the mother whose daughter convinced her to seek therapy and lithium changed her life?
(a) Andrea.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Michelle.
(d) Lorraine.

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

5. Patty Duke did not recall having any manias before the age of what?
(a) 15.
(b) 19.
(c) 16.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. Patty Duke writes, "The tendency to _______ is something we've been doing for too long when it comes to manic depression."

2. What kind of hat did Patty's father almost always wear?

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

4. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?

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?

(see the answer key)

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