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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the story about Ellen, who developed bipolar disorder in high school, and her mother was her caretaker 17 years later, what did Ellen graduate college to become?
(a) Writer.
(b) Comedian.
(c) Interior designer.
(d) Actress.

2. What is another name for the drug Depakote?
(a) Lamictal.
(b) Valproate.
(c) Clonopin.
(d) Stelazine.

3. In what year did Patty Duke make her television movie about her manic-depressive illness?
(a) 1986.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1995.

4. From what play comes the line, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"?
(a) A Winter's Tale.
(b) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(c) Romeo and Juliet.
(d) Hamlet.

5. In the example of dealing with a spouse with the illness, who is married to Tracey?
(a) Adam.
(b) Jason.
(c) William.
(d) John.

6. What is the name of the mother whose daughter convinced her to seek therapy and lithium changed her life?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Andrea.
(c) Lorraine.
(d) Michelle.

7. What is the name of Patty's adopted son?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Kevin.
(c) Stephen.
(d) Jason.

8. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors fell out of favor because they induced what?
(a) Hallucinations.
(b) High blood pressure.
(c) Seizures.
(d) Headaches.

9. What is another name for the drug trazodone?
(a) Bupropion.
(b) Dyserel.
(c) Fluoxetine.
(d) Lumidiomil.

10. Who was the seventh-century commander-in-chief and Lord Protector of England?
(a) Winston Churchill.
(b) Andrew Jameson.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Oliver Cromwell.

11. Who was the director of the television movie Patty Duke made about her illness?
(a) James Smead.
(b) Andrew Brucker.
(c) John Landing.
(d) Gil Cates.

12. Who is an example in Chapter 10 that saw signs of manic depression in her married son?
(a) Marjorie.
(b) Susan.
(c) Alicia.
(d) Sarah.

13. Charles Burney was the biographer of which composer?
(a) Handel.
(b) Mahler.
(c) Amadeus.
(d) Berlioz.

14. How long after marrying John Astin did Patty realize she was pregnant?
(a) One month.
(b) Two months.
(c) One year.
(d) Six months.

15. How many children did John Astin have from his previous marriage?
(a) Three.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Marriage that Shattered," who is married to Larry?

2. When was the Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association founded?

3. Who played Patty's father in the television movie?

4. Who is the author of the book, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament?

5. Who is the Stanley Harris Senior Professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center?

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