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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. Duke writes in Chapter 1 that as her episodes increased with frequency they also increased with what?
(a) Irrationality.
(b) Depression.
(c) Intensity.
(d) Irritability.

2. What is the term for "mild ups and downs"?
(a) Semipolar.
(b) Cyclothymes.
(c) Unipolar.
(d) Demimaniac.

3. 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?
(a) Frequency bipolars.
(b) Multicyclers.
(c) Rapid cyclers.
(d) Schizophrenics.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Patty Duke did not recall having any manias before the age of what?

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

3. Chapter 1, Looking Backward is written in the style of what?

4. How old was Patty Duke when she was writing the book?

5. From what form of bipolar illness does Patty Duke suffer?

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