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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 director of the U.S. Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration referred to in Chapter 2?
(a) Dr. Doris H. Rosenfeld.
(b) Dr. Frederick K. Goodwin.
(c) Dr. Frederick Wolverton.
(d) Dr. Emily Franklin.

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

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

4. Where was Patty's second and longest hospitalization?
(a) Whispering Oaks.
(b) Westwood.
(c) Mt. Sinai.
(d) Bellevue.

5. For the past year, Dr. McKnew has been treating two four-year-olds whom he diagnosed having manic-depression with what?
(a) Therapy.
(b) Lithium.
(c) Electroshock.
(d) Anti-depressants.

Short Answer Questions

1. What researcher from Yale University School of Medicine participated in the study from Jerusalem on genetic connections?

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

3. What is the name of the forty-two-year-old mother of two who voluntarily participated in the study for winter depression?

4. Right after she was diagnosed, for a short period of time, Duke had her blood checked how often?

5. Who is the medical sociologist at the University of Miami School of Medicine and one of the field's major researchers in analyzing DNA?

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