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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of unipolar depressives will eventually commit suicide?
(a) 15.
(b) 10.
(c) 20.
(d) 30.

2. How many pills of lithium does Patty Duke take per day?
(a) One.
(b) Two.
(c) Four.
(d) Three.

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

4. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?
(a) 18.
(b) 20.
(c) 60.
(d) 12.

5. What researchers lived with an Amish family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania while studying at Yale?
(a) Dr. Samuel Ross.
(b) Dr. Janice Egeland.
(c) Dr. Timothy Hutchins.
(d) Dr. Neil Risch.

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

7. Researchers believe that there is a link between the gene which may pass along traits of manic-depressive illness and what chromosome?
(a) O.
(b) X.
(c) Y.
(d) B.

8. In studies of twins where one identical twin had manic-depressive disorder, what is the percentage of cases where the other twin also developed it?
(a) 60.
(b) 50.
(c) 80.
(d) 90.

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

10. Patty Duke's mother was one of how many children?
(a) 7.
(b) 11.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

11. Who was Patty's first husband?
(a) John McAdams.
(b) Harry Falk.
(c) John Astin.
(d) Jerry Wilson.

12. How low did Patty's weight get when she was anorexic?
(a) 80 lbs.
(b) 85 lbs.
(c) 69 lbs.
(d) 73 lbs.

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

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

15. Patty Duke's father was what?
(a) Schizophrenic.
(b) A teacher.
(c) An alcoholic.
(d) Manic-depressive.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The increased risk of developing a mood disorder from having a first-degree relative who also has a mood disorder is how many times that of someone without that history?

3. Who is the 35-year-old artist used as an example in the section of Bipolar II?

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

5. Until what era was mental illness considered to be rooted in psychological trauma?

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