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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Creativity Connection.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Patty was about 12, where was her mother living?
(a) The Bronx.
(b) New Jersey.
(c) Queens.
(d) Brooklyn.

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

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

5. Who is the controversial former Prime Minister of Israel referred to in Chapter 8?
(a) Israel Harvey.
(b) Menachem Begin.
(c) Ishmael Chaim.
(d) Chaim Potok.

Short Answer Questions

1. For how many years did Patty Duke suffer severely with her illness before she was finally diagnosed as manic depressive?

2. Who was the pioneer in identifying manic-depressive illness?

3. From what play comes the line, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"?

4. Who was the couple who managed Patty Duke as a child?

5. In what year did Patty's parent's marry?

(see the answer key)

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