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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what person is Chapter 1 written?
(a) Third person.
(b) First person.
(c) Second person.
(d) Fourth person.

2. Chapter 1, Looking Backward is written in the style of what?
(a) Memoir.
(b) Fiction.
(c) Biography.
(d) Speculative fiction.

3. What is the name of the play starring Susan Clark about three women in which Patty performed in Los Angeles?
(a) Adriana's Back Door.
(b) Miriam's Story.
(c) The Glass Castle.
(d) Meetin's on the Porch.

4. What door did Patty begin keeping open to prove to her sons that she had changed?
(a) Kitchen.
(b) Back door.
(c) Bedroom.
(d) Bathroom.

5. Patty writes, "I believe that ______ is counterproductive, so in an almost selfish way it was important for me to forgive."
(a) Bitterness.
(b) Rage.
(c) Hatred.
(d) Misery.

6. How much older is Patty's sister than her?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 8 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 3 years.

7. For how many years did Patty Duke suffer severely with her illness before she was finally diagnosed as manic depressive?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 17.
(d) 30.

8. At the time the book was written, the Amish study was continuing covering how many subjects from 11 families?
(a) 120.
(b) 160.
(c) 150.
(d) 100.

9. How old was Patty Duke when she was writing the book?
(a) 41.
(b) 49.
(c) 50.
(d) 45.

10. What psychiatric hospital did Patty's first husband take her to in Los Angeles?
(a) Mt. Sinai.
(b) Green Acres.
(c) Whispering Oaks.
(d) Bellevue.

11. Every few months, Patty says she gets a what taste in her mouth?
(a) Sweet.
(b) Sour.
(c) Metallic.
(d) Bitter.

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

13. What is the one side effect that irritates Patty Duke in others, which she has not experienced from the drug?
(a) Weight gain.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Tremors.
(d) Nausea.

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

15. Which of the forms of bipolar disorder is the most extreme?
(a) Hypomania.
(b) Bipolar II.
(c) Bipolar III.
(d) Bipolar I.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Patty Duke's first big, public manic episode?

2. What did "Grandpa Duke" do for a living?

3. Who is the director of the U.S. Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration referred to in Chapter 2?

4. Patty Duke says that one of the few, slight side effects she gets from the lithium is what?

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

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