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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Who Gets Manic-Depressive Illness?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Chapter 1, Looking Backward is written in the style of what?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Biography.
(c) Fiction.
(d) Speculative fiction.

2. In 1985, Dr. Akiskal reported results of a study on how many children or younger siblings of adult bipolar patients?
(a) 75.
(b) 100.
(c) 68.
(d) 60.

3. Patty Duke did not recall having any manias before the age of what?
(a) 16.
(b) 19.
(c) 22.
(d) 15.

4. How much older is Patty's sister than her?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

5. What is Patty's brother's name?
(a) Raymond.
(b) Jason.
(c) Andrew.
(d) John.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the Bipolar II woman from Chicago who says she wishes she could bottle her mania?

2. Who was the couple who managed Patty Duke as a child?

3. At the time the book was written, the Amish study was continuing covering how many subjects from 11 families?

4. Who is the Armenian-born psychiatrist dedicated to studying personality and mood disorders who is referred to in Chapter 2?

5. Patty Duke's panic attacks almost always revolved around what?

(see the answer key)

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