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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. Dr Elliot Gershon says that manic-depressive illness may have something to do with ________.
(a) Acclimancy factor.
(b) Infancy risk.
(c) Associative bipolarism.
(d) Assortative mating.

2. Patty Duke's panic attacks almost always revolved around what?
(a) The death of others.
(b) Being on subways.
(c) Her own death.
(d) Being left alone.

3. Whose research states that of the unipolar depressives who commit suicide most will have visited their doctor within the month?
(a) Dr. George Murphy.
(b) Dr. Seymor J. Williams.
(c) Dr. Frederick Wolverson.
(d) Dr. Emily Watson.

4. How old was Patty when she stopped living with her managers?
(a) 18.
(b) 12.
(c) 25.
(d) 15.

5. More than ten million people a year in the United States alone complain of symptoms of what?
(a) Bipolar depression.
(b) Reactive depression.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Unipolar depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the way Patty attempted suicide the majority of the times?

2. What is the term for "mild ups and downs"?

3. What is Patty's brother's name?

4. Who is the assistant professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital at Harvard medical school?

5. Who was Patty's first husband?

(see the answer key)

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