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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When taking antidepressants, how long does it take to see noticeable results?
(a) Ten to fifteen days.
(b) Almost a year.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two to six weeks.

2. What drug can do permanent damage to dopamine systems and can make depression worse?
(a) Cocaine.
(b) LSD.
(c) Valium.
(d) Heroine.

3. What drug, which Solomon takes four times, helped him save a relationship once?
(a) Ecstasy.
(b) Xanax.
(c) Special K.
(d) Opium.

4. What is Martha Manning's profession?
(a) Nurse.
(b) Author.
(c) Artist.
(d) Scientist.

5. How does Betsy overcome her depression?
(a) Through her cat Sampson.
(b) Through her poetry.
(c) Through her teaching job.
(d) Through her Catholic faith.

6. With what drug does Solomon have a side effect where he cannot remain upright?
(a) Navine.
(b) Xanax.
(c) Prozac.
(d) Zoloft.

7. What sort of men is Tina drawn to?
(a) Humorous.
(b) Gloomy.
(c) Violent.
(d) Clingy.

8. Who does Solomon give a lecture on during his breakdown?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Marilyn Monroe.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

9. Where does Frank go to graduate school?
(a) Johns Hopkins.
(b) Brandeis.
(c) Purdue.
(d) Northwestern.

10. ECT is associated with how many deaths?
(a) One in 10,000.
(b) One in 100,000.
(c) One in 1,000.
(d) One in 100.

11. What type of drugs are known "club drugs"?
(a) Antidepressants.
(b) Benzos.
(c) Opiates.
(d) Hallucinogens.

12. How much more likely are men to commit suicide than women?
(a) Four times.
(b) Nine times.
(c) Ten times.
(d) Three times.

13. In the offspring of depressed mothers, earliest childhood depression is found in children as young as what age?
(a) Fourteen months.
(b) Three months.
(c) One year.
(d) Twenty-six months.

14. Men synthesize serotonin how much faster than women?
(a) Thirty-five percent.
(b) Eighty percent.
(c) Fifty percent.
(d) Ten percent.

15. Which drugs can help fight anxiety?
(a) Hallucinogens.
(b) Depressants.
(c) Benzos.
(d) Opiates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What addictive substance does Solomon grow up around?

2. Myrna Weissman is from what school?

3. What is the name of the group that takes people on trips of physical exertion, teaching toughness of mind?

4. Where does Solomon receive a new age massage?

5. What is the average age of depression sufferers?

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