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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. What is the term for "mild ups and downs"?
(a) Unipolar.
(b) Cyclothymes.
(c) Demimaniac.
(d) Semipolar.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the third book Patty is writing and says she's doing research for?

2. Which of the forms of bipolar disorder is the most extreme?

3. Patty Duke did not recall having any manias before the age of what?

4. 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?

5. What is the name of the cemetery which Patty passed going to visit her mother where she always had panic attacks?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How can doctors distinguish between unipolar and bipolar depression?

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

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

5. What is unipolar depression? What are its symptoms?

6. What do doctors say regarding environmental elements contributing to manic depression?

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

8. Describe Patty Duke's father.

9. Who was Patty Duke's mother? What was the cause of her depression?

10. How did Patty come to forgive her parents?

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