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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. Patty Duke's father was what?
(a) Schizophrenic.
(b) A teacher.
(c) An alcoholic.
(d) Manic-depressive.

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

3. In a study in Belgium, among the adoptive parents of bipolar adoptees, the prevalence in mental illness was what percent?
(a) 30.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 12.

4. Whose research states that of the unipolar depressives who commit suicide most will have visited their doctor within the month?
(a) Dr. Seymor J. Williams.
(b) Dr. Emily Watson.
(c) Dr. George Murphy.
(d) Dr. Frederick Wolverson.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When was Patty's mother diagnosed with unipolar depression?

3. Who is the 38-year-old woman mentioned in Chapter 2 who moved nine times in three years and consistently changed careers?

4. 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?

5. Patty Duke has suffered episodes of mania as well as depression since her late teens but did not know the name of her illness until she was how old?

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