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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, My Little Beige Pill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the 35-year-old artist used as an example in the section of Bipolar II?
(a) Dolly.
(b) Beverly.
(c) Sara.
(d) Dawn.

2. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?
(a) 12.
(b) 18.
(c) 60.
(d) 20.

3. How old was Patty when her father died?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

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

5. What is Patty Duke's mother's name?
(a) Dolores.
(b) Sara.
(c) Frances.
(d) Lizzie.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the one side effect that irritates Patty Duke in others, which she has not experienced from the drug?

3. Where was Patty's second and longest hospitalization?

4. In 1985, Dr. Akiskal reported results of a study on how many children or younger siblings of adult bipolar patients?

5. Researchers believe that there is a link between the gene which may pass along traits of manic-depressive illness and what chromosome?

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