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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. Like manic-depressive illness, _______ usually begins late in adolescence and early adulthood and shares similar full-blown psychotic symptoms.
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Unipolar depression.
(c) Cyclythymes.
(d) Borderline personality disorder.

2. Patty Duke has suffered episodes of mania as well as depression since her late teens but did not know the name of her illness until she was how old?
(a) 40.
(b) 25.
(c) 35.
(d) 32.

3. In a study in Belgium, among the adoptive parents of bipolar adoptees, the prevalence in mental illness was what percent?
(a) 15.
(b) 30.
(c) 19.
(d) 12.

4. What was the way Patty attempted suicide the majority of the times?
(a) Jumping in front of a car.
(b) Slitting her wrists.
(c) Drowning herself.
(d) Overdosing on pills.

5. What did Patty Duke's father call her as a child?
(a) Pattycake.
(b) Ree-Ree.
(c) Anna.
(d) Anny-Boo.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Patty's parent's marry?

2. Duke writes in Chapter 1 that as her episodes increased with frequency they also increased with what?

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

4. Chapter 1, Looking Backward is written in the style of what?

5. Who is the director of the U.S. Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration referred to in Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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