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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Many Faces of Manic-Depressive Illness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. More than ten million people a year in the United States alone complain of symptoms of what?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Unipolar depression.
(c) Bipolar depression.
(d) Reactive depression.

2. How old was Patty Duke when she was writing the book?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 49.
(d) 41.

3. What do some mental health experts refer to "the mixed states" as?
(a) Despairing anxiety.
(b) Morose hysteria.
(c) Joyful misery.
(d) Hysterical sadness.

4. What was the way Patty attempted suicide the majority of the times?
(a) Slitting her wrists.
(b) Jumping in front of a car.
(c) Drowning herself.
(d) Overdosing on pills.

5. What does Bipolar III indicate?
(a) Medicated into mania.
(b) Manic all of the time.
(c) Depressive with mixed states.
(d) Manic most of the time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose research states that of the unipolar depressives who commit suicide most will have visited their doctor within the month?

2. Like manic-depressive illness, _______ usually begins late in adolescence and early adulthood and shares similar full-blown psychotic symptoms.

3. What percentage of unipolar depressives will eventually commit suicide?

4. What is the term for depressions which are a normal response to a major trauma?

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

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