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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. From what form of bipolar illness does Patty Duke suffer?
(a) Bipolar I.
(b) Hypomania.
(c) Bipolar III.
(d) Bipolar II.

2. Who is the assistant professor of psychiatry at McLean Hospital at Harvard medical school?
(a) Dr. Sanjay D. Deepak.
(b) Dr. Frederick M. Wolverton.
(c) Dr. Sarah M. Wilkinson.
(d) Dr. Anthony J. Rothschild.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. More than ten million people a year in the United States alone complain of symptoms of what?

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

3. For how many years did Patty Duke suffer severely with her illness before she was finally diagnosed as manic depressive?

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

5. Researchers in Washington D.C. were studying how many patients whose depressions started in the spring and ended in the fall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why didn't Patty's husbands commit her to hospitals? What was her experience when she was institutionalized?

2. Discuss Patty's experience with the Rosses.

3. How did Patty Duke feel when she was diagnosed bipolar?

4. What does Patty remember of her mother as a child? Where was Patty relocated during her childhood?

5. Discuss the genetic findings for manic-depressive illness.

6. How did Patty approach her diagnosis with her children, given the genetic factors? What was their reaction?

7. Discuss what cyclothymes is. How is this related to bipolar disorder?

8. How did Patty come to forgive her parents?

9. Describe the three personality types discussed by Dr. Akiskal in Chapter 4.

10. Describe Bipolar II.

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