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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The suicide rate in the U.S. went up by what percent after the death of a famous person?
(a) Three percent.
(b) Fifteen percent.
(c) Nine percent.
(d) Twelve percent.

2. What is Angel's last name?
(a) Connor.
(b) Marcel.
(c) Starky.
(d) Gibbons.

3. How much money do state and federal governments spend for poor adults and their children each year?
(a) $300 million.
(b) $900 million.
(c) $4 billion.
(d) $20 billion.

4. What state is Joe Rogers in when he lives in a halfway house?
(a) North Dakota.
(b) Alabama.
(c) Florida.
(d) Maryland.

5. How many suicide attempts are there for every successful suicide?
(a) Four.
(b) Twenty-two.
(c) Seven.
(d) Sixteen.

6. How was depression seen in the thirteenth century?
(a) As normal.
(b) As a deathly, untreatable disease.
(c) As something intelligent people suffered from.
(d) As a sin.

7. Who formed the idea that the brain controls the central nervous system?
(a) Plato.
(b) Menodotus.
(c) Herophilius.
(d) Hippocrates.

8. What does Solomon believe humans face that contributes to depression?
(a) Apathy.
(b) Too many choices.
(c) Impending death.
(d) Threat of violence.

9. What is the strongest factor in predicting suicide?
(a) Family history.
(b) Talking about it.
(c) Depression.
(d) Previous attempts.

10. Who suggested that suicide was a murderous impulse toward another person?
(a) Maslow.
(b) Freud.
(c) Jung.
(d) Hume.

11. Freud says melancholic people have a keener eye for what?
(a) Color.
(b) Truth.
(c) Innovation.
(d) Morality.

12. How does depression affect reproduction?
(a) There is no correlation.
(b) It decreases it.
(c) It increases it.
(d) It does nothing to it.

13. What group has the highest suicide rate?
(a) Women under 20.
(b) Women over 80.
(c) Men over 65.
(d) Men under 30.

14. What is the greatest block to progress when dealing with depression?
(a) Medicalization.
(b) Social stigma.
(c) Oversimplification.
(d) Imaging.

15. What field does Lolly find a job in?
(a) Cleaning.
(b) Sales.
(c) Childcare.
(d) Administrative services.

Short Answer Questions

1. What percent of people in the U.S. suffering from serious mental illness are unemployed?

2. What university is Richard J. Davidson from?

3. How many groups of suicides are there?

4. When was depression first identified?

5. What day do many suicides take place?

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