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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Families Suffer and Learn.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The doctor who discovered lithium's effects on mania originally suspected that what was the culprit for the disease?
(a) Lactose.
(b) Adrenalin.
(c) Thymine.
(d) Urea.

2. Which composer wrote of his delusions to his fiancé Clara Wieck?
(a) Bach.
(b) Berlioz.
(c) Schumann.
(d) Handel.

3. Patty claims she doesn't like to do what to prove she can act?
(a) Audition.
(b) Perform.
(c) Meet casting agents.
(d) Take lunches.

4. Who, along with Rose Kurland, founded the Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association?
(a) Andrew Mathews.
(b) Sarah Strawman.
(c) Johnathan Williams.
(d) Marilyn Weiss.

5. An overdose of lithium can result in what?
(a) Depression.
(b) Death.
(c) Mania.
(d) Catatonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who played Patty's son in the film Please Don't Hit Me, Mom?

2. Dr Elliot Gershon says that manic-depressive illness may have something to do with ________.

3. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?

4. What do some mental health experts refer to "the mixed states" as?

5. How much older is Patty's sister than her?

(see the answer key)

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