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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who adapted the screenplay for the television docudrama on Patty's life?
(a) Norah Ephron.
(b) Michelle Anderson.
(c) John McGreavey.
(d) John Steiner.

2. Who was the director of the television movie Patty Duke made about her illness?
(a) Gil Cates.
(b) John Landing.
(c) James Smead.
(d) Andrew Brucker.

3. What is the circuit with which John and Patty worked as actors and traveled?
(a) Straw-hat.
(b) World tour.
(c) Last Exit.
(d) Off Broadway.

4. What Wall Street trader testified in court that his manic-depressive illness led to his making bad business decisions?
(a) James Alexander.
(b) Phillip Bishop.
(c) John Mulhern, Jr.
(d) Andrew Schwartzman.

5. Who was the seventh-century commander-in-chief and Lord Protector of England?
(a) Andrew Jameson.
(b) Oliver Cromwell.
(c) Richard Dawkins.
(d) Winston Churchill.

6. What is one indicator of oncoming manias?
(a) Decreased sex drive.
(b) Increased sex drive.
(c) Fevers and sweats.
(d) Hyperventilation.

7. What is the married son's name whose mother saw the signs of his oncoming manic depression in Chapter 10?
(a) William.
(b) Jason.
(c) Danny.
(d) Sean.

8. Which composer wrote of his delusions to his fiancé Clara Wieck?
(a) Berlioz.
(b) Handel.
(c) Schumann.
(d) Bach.

9. "Even when there are little to no side effects, anywhere from ___ to ___ percent of people stop taking their lithium."
(a) 20 to 30.
(b) 50 to 60.
(c) 40 to 50.
(d) 10 to 25.

10. Who is the author of the book, Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament?
(a) Dr. Stanford H. Ray.
(b) Gloria Hochman.
(c) Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison.
(d) Patty Duke.

11. Duke writes, "I don't take it lightly when I say there are moments in the theater that are to me a ______ experience."
(a) Manic.
(b) Transportative.
(c) Religious.
(d) Enlightening.

12. In what year did Patty marry her current husband?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1986.
(d) 1990.

13. Charles Burney was the biographer of which composer?
(a) Handel.
(b) Amadeus.
(c) Berlioz.
(d) Mahler.

14. What often happens to families in which there is a manic-depressive child?
(a) Violent.
(b) Repressed.
(c) Socially interactive.
(d) Socially isolated.

15. In what year did Patty Duke make her television movie about her manic-depressive illness?
(a) 1990.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1986.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the television movie Patty Duke made about her manic-depressive illness?

2. Who is one of the authors of the book Manic-Depressive Illness and an associate professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University?

3. When was the Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association founded?

4. Where does Patty's brother live?

5. Who is the Stanley Harris Senior Professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center?

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