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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What researcher from Yale University School of Medicine participated in the study from Jerusalem on genetic connections?
(a) Dr. Neil Risch.
(b) Dr. Samuel Ross.
(c) Dr. Ronna Pennington.
(d) Dr. Frances Stein.

2. Patty Duke's panic attacks became very clear to her around what age?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 2.
(d) 6.

3. What is the name of the play starring Susan Clark about three women in which Patty performed in Los Angeles?
(a) Meetin's on the Porch.
(b) Adriana's Back Door.
(c) The Glass Castle.
(d) Miriam's Story.

4. How many genes does a person have?
(a) 100,000-200,000.
(b) 25,000-50,000.
(c) 150,000-200,000.
(d) 50,000-100,000.

5. What is the name of the doctor at the hospital which Patty called "Grandpa"?
(a) Richard Hillburrow.
(b) Gerald Kimble.
(c) Jack Lomas.
(d) Michael McAndrew.

6. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?
(a) 60.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 20.

7. For the past year, Dr. McKnew has been treating two four-year-olds whom he diagnosed having manic-depression with what?
(a) Lithium.
(b) Anti-depressants.
(c) Electroshock.
(d) Therapy.

8. From what form of bipolar illness does Patty Duke suffer?
(a) Bipolar III.
(b) Bipolar II.
(c) Bipolar I.
(d) Hypomania.

9. Until what era was mental illness considered to be rooted in psychological trauma?
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1940s.

10. What kind of hat did Patty's father almost always wear?
(a) A top hat.
(b) A bowler hat.
(c) A gray fedora.
(d) A black fedora.

11. Since what year has Patty Duke been taking lithium?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1970.

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

13. 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.

14. In a 1969-research project at Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found that in two families, everyone that was ______ was also manic-depressive.
(a) Color-blind.
(b) Male.
(c) Left-handed.
(d) Female.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Patty's oldest son?

2. Who was the couple who managed Patty Duke as a child?

3. 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?

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. Who is the assistant professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital at Harvard medical school?

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