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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of drug is heroine?

2. What talking therapy teaches the patient objectivity?

3. What percent of depressed people commit suicide as a result?

4. Where does Solomon receive a new age massage?

5. ECT is associated with how many deaths?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Solomon use a metaphor about finding a hole in the ozone layer to finding depression among the indigent Americans?

2. How does Solomon feel about the current century?

3. Why should depressed people avoid bad arguments and feelings of outrage?

4. Why would it make evolutionary sense for women to be sensitive to loss?

5. Describe the four groups of suicides.

6. Describe Solomon's experience with cocaine.

7. What does Thomas Crowe believe about schizophrenia?

8. How does the brain adapt to change?

9. What are the major factors that influence ideas surrounding depression?

10. How does hypnosis help treat depression?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explore Solomon's passive suicide attempt. Why does he want to die? Why does he go about his attempt in a passive way? What does Solomon's desire to obtain AIDS as a means to death say about him?

Essay Topic 2

How are depressives seen throughout history? Choose three time periods that Solomon mentions and describes how depressives were treated and viewed. When did society begin to see depressives as normal?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the role of Phaly Noun in the book. Why is her story relevant to Solomon's overview of depression? What does Solomon seem to admire about her?

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