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

2. What is the term for depressions which are a normal response to a major trauma?
(a) Reactive depression.
(b) Unipolar depression.
(c) Actuary depression.
(d) Normal depression.

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

4. In what person is Chapter 1 written?
(a) First person.
(b) Third person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Fourth person.

5. In what year did Patty's parent's marry?
(a) 1941.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1940.
(d) 1945.

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

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

5. What is Patty Duke's mother's name?

(see the answer key)

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