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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Patty's mother diagnosed with unipolar depression?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1970.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1990.

2. Who was the producer of The Patty Duke Show?
(a) Michael Feinstein.
(b) Jeremy Robinson.
(c) Bob Sweeney.
(d) William Anderson.

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

4. In what year did Patty's parent's marry?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1945.

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

6. 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?
(a) 25.
(b) 40.
(c) 35.
(d) 32.

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

8. Who is the Bipolar II woman from Chicago who says she wishes she could bottle her mania?
(a) Beatrice.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Dolly.
(d) Dorothy.

9. What is the term for "mild ups and downs"?
(a) Demimaniac.
(b) Semipolar.
(c) Cyclothymes.
(d) Unipolar.

10. 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) Female.
(b) Left-handed.
(c) Male.
(d) Color-blind.

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

12. Whose research states that of the unipolar depressives who commit suicide most will have visited their doctor within the month?
(a) Dr. Frederick Wolverson.
(b) Dr. Seymor J. Williams.
(c) Dr. George Murphy.
(d) Dr. Emily Watson.

13. 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?
(a) Multicyclers.
(b) Rapid cyclers.
(c) Schizophrenics.
(d) Frequency bipolars.

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

15. Since what year has Patty Duke been taking lithium?
(a) 1970.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1969.
(d) 1985.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Patty's first husband?

2. What is Patty's brother's name?

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

4. Which of the forms of bipolar disorder is the most extreme?

5. How did Patty Duke feel when she was diagnosed with manic depressive illness?

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