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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Dr Elliot Gershon says that manic-depressive illness may have something to do with ________.
(a) Infancy risk.
(b) Acclimancy factor.
(c) Assortative mating.
(d) Associative bipolarism.

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

3. 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. Frederick Wolverson.
(c) Dr. Emily Watson.
(d) Dr. Seymor J. Williams.

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

5. What did "Grandpa Duke" do for a living?
(a) He was an engineer.
(b) He was a bartender.
(c) He was a mechanic.
(d) He was a cab driver.

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

7. What does Bipolar III indicate?
(a) Manic all of the time.
(b) Depressive with mixed states.
(c) Medicated into mania.
(d) Manic most of the time.

8. Patty claims she doesn't like to do what to prove she can act?
(a) Take lunches.
(b) Meet casting agents.
(c) Audition.
(d) Perform.

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

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

11. 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) Male.
(c) Color-blind.
(d) Left-handed.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Within how many weeks did lithium begin to work for Patty Duke?

2. In a study in Belgium, what percent of birth parents whose adopted children had manic depression had a history of mood disorders?

3. Who is the 38-year-old woman mentioned in Chapter 2 who moved nine times in three years and consistently changed careers?

4. Who was Patty's first husband?

5. What was the way Patty attempted suicide the majority of the times?

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