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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. What does Bipolar III indicate?
(a) Medicated into mania.
(b) Manic most of the time.
(c) Depressive with mixed states.
(d) Manic all of the time.

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

3. Duke writes in Chapter 1 that as her episodes increased with frequency they also increased with what?
(a) Intensity.
(b) Irritability.
(c) Depression.
(d) Irrationality.

4. What did "Grandpa Duke" do for a living?
(a) He was a mechanic.
(b) He was an engineer.
(c) He was a bartender.
(d) He was a cab driver.

5. What researcher from Yale University School of Medicine participated in the study from Jerusalem on genetic connections?
(a) Dr. Samuel Ross.
(b) Dr. Neil Risch.
(c) Dr. Ronna Pennington.
(d) Dr. Frances Stein.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the cemetery which Patty passed going to visit her mother where she always had panic attacks?

2. What kind of hat did Patty's father almost always wear?

3. When was Patty's mother diagnosed with unipolar depression?

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

5. 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?

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