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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old was Patty when her parents split up?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Five.
(d) Seven.

2. What was the way Patty attempted suicide the majority of the times?
(a) Overdosing on pills.
(b) Jumping in front of a car.
(c) Slitting her wrists.
(d) Drowning herself.

3. What is the name of Patty's oldest son?
(a) Patrick.
(b) John.
(c) Michael.
(d) Sean.

4. What is the name of the cemetery which Patty passed going to visit her mother where she always had panic attacks?
(a) Calvary.
(b) Rose Hill.
(c) Webster.
(d) Jackson.

5. More than ten million people a year in the United States alone complain of symptoms of what?
(a) Bipolar depression.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Unipolar depression.
(d) Reactive depression.

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

7. What is Patty's older sister's name?
(a) Carol.
(b) Elizabeth.
(c) Alison.
(d) Donna.

8. Patty Duke says that one of the few, slight side effects she gets from the lithium is what?
(a) Nausea.
(b) Weight gain.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Hair loss.

9. In a study in Belgium, among the adoptive parents of bipolar adoptees, the prevalence in mental illness was what percent?
(a) 12.
(b) 15.
(c) 19.
(d) 30.

10. What did Patty Duke begin collecting after starting to take lithium?
(a) Diaries.
(b) Pillboxes.
(c) Calendars.
(d) Pamphlets.

11. Patty duke writes, "____ was the most oppressive thing about living with the Rosses."
(a) Danger.
(b) Money.
(c) Longing.
(d) Fear.

12. What is the name of the third book Patty is writing and says she's doing research for?
(a) Call Me Anna.
(b) Patty Duke's Lost Years.
(c) Patty Duke's Little Beige Pill.
(d) Patty Duke's Pacific Northwest Pit Stop Guide.

13. Who was the sister who raised Patty Duke's mother?
(a) Eleanor.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Lizzie.

14. In 1985, Dr. Akiskal reported results of a study on how many children or younger siblings of adult bipolar patients?
(a) 100.
(b) 75.
(c) 60.
(d) 68.

15. Within how many weeks did lithium begin to work for Patty Duke?
(a) Six.
(b) Eight.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

Short Answer Questions

1. How low did Patty's weight get when she was anorexic?

2. What is the term for patients whose mood changes collide with one another, from month to month, day to day, sometimes even within the same day?

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

4. Every few months, Patty says she gets a what taste in her mouth?

5. What is the name of the doctor at the hospital which Patty called "Grandpa"?

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