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

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

3. Who is the controversial former Prime Minister of Israel referred to in Chapter 8?
(a) Ishmael Chaim.
(b) Israel Harvey.
(c) Menachem Begin.
(d) Chaim Potok.

4. Who is one of the authors of the book Manic-Depressive Illness and an associate professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University?
(a) Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison.
(b) Dr. Katherine M. Barron.
(c) Dr. William C. Boyd.
(d) Dr. Joachim M. Boyle.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who reportedly drank 16 double frozen daiquiris in one night?

2. Who writes, "For every Hemingway, there are thousands of manic-depressives whose lives are ruined"?

3. Winston Churchill's biographer described him as what?

4. "Even when there are little to no side effects, anywhere from ___ to ___ percent of people stop taking their lithium."

5. Where does Patty's brother live?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the side effects associated with lithium?

2. What did making Call Me Anna cause Patty to see about manic depression and its effects on acting?

3. Discuss the antidepressants discussed in Chapter 6.

4. What "gift" does Patty Duke conclude she gained from her illness?

5. What happens after hospitalization with bipolar patients?

6. What is Patty's biggest regret about her behavior before she was diagnosed?

7. When is it necessary to hospitalize a bipolar patient?

8. Discuss anticonvulsants and neuroleptics.

9. Discuss alcoholism and writers as discussed in the text.

10. What are the effects of dealing with a parent with manic depression?

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