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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, My Family and Friends.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In a 1969-research project at Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found that in two families, everyone that was ______ was also manic-depressive.
(a) Male.
(b) Color-blind.
(c) Left-handed.
(d) Female.

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

3. Monoamine oxidase inhibitors fell out of favor because they induced what?
(a) High blood pressure.
(b) Hallucinations.
(c) Headaches.
(d) Seizures.

4. Who did Patty Duke play in The Miracle Worker?
(a) Elizabeth I.
(b) Helen Keller.
(c) Sylvia Plath.
(d) Susan B. Anthony.

5. Patty Duke writes, "The tendency to _______ is something we've been doing for too long when it comes to manic depression."
(a) Look away.
(b) Expose only the negative.
(c) Hide it.
(d) Pretend it's not there.

Short Answer Questions

1. Since what year has Patty Duke been taking lithium?

2. 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?

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

4. Who writes, "For every Hemingway, there are thousands of manic-depressives whose lives are ruined"?

5. What is another name for the drug trazodone?

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