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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why couldn't John work as a screenwriter during one period of Patty's marriage?
(a) He was an alcoholic.
(b) He was fired.
(c) There was a strike.
(d) She wouldn't let him.

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

3. Who is the Italian psychiatrist who wrote Man of Genius?
(a) Luigi Androsi.
(b) Cesare Androsi.
(c) Cesare Lombroso.
(d) Guiseppe Renardo.

4. What did Patty Duke also do with the docudrama she made for television?
(a) Operated the camera.
(b) Produced.
(c) Designed sound.
(d) Directed.

5. Who is the president of the Manic-Depressive Illness Foundation?
(a) Dr. Richard M. McAnally.
(b) Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison.
(c) Dr. Susan H. Rosenfield.
(d) Dr. Stanford H. Ray.

Short Answer Questions

1. Patty Duke writes, "The tendency to _______ is something we've been doing for too long when it comes to manic depression."

2. Which composer wrote of his delusions to his fiancé Clara Wieck?

3. Who was the pioneer in identifying manic-depressive illness?

4. The doctor who discovered lithium's effects on mania originally suspected that what was the culprit for the disease?

5. What is the circuit with which John and Patty worked as actors and traveled?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the correlation between CEOs and manic depression?

2. What did the psychiatrist and Patty disagree about regarding her manic "epiphany"?

3. What is the argument regarding treatment for the creative manic depressant?

4. What does Patty Duke conclude regarding talent and manic depression?

5. What was Patty's experience like in making Call Me Anna?

6. Discuss alcoholism and writers as discussed in the text.

7. What did making Call Me Anna cause Patty to see about manic depression and its effects on acting?

8. What pressures did Patty put on herself in her family life? How did these lead to episodes?

9. What happens after hospitalization with bipolar patients?

10. What does Dr. Jamison believe doctors should do when treating the artist?

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