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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Researchers believe that there is a link between the gene which may pass along traits of manic-depressive illness and what chromosome?

2. How did Patty Duke feel when she was diagnosed with manic depressive illness?

3. Right after she was diagnosed, for a short period of time, Duke had her blood checked how often?

4. In a 1969-research project at Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found that in two families, everyone that was ______ was also manic-depressive.

5. Patty Duke says that one of the few, slight side effects she gets from the lithium is what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did Patty's symptoms appear in her life? What were they?

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

4. When did Patty learn of the difficulties people face with the side effects of lithium? Has she suffered from them?

5. Discuss Patty's experience with the Rosses.

6. Describe Bipolar II.

7. Describe Patty Duke's father.

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

9. What is Patty Duke's experience with psychotherapy?

10. How did Patty come to forgive her parents?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Patty Duke's relationship with her children. How has this relationship evolved since her diagnosis?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the symptoms of manic-depressive illness listed early in the book. Is it possible to diagnose the disease based solely on a checklist? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the difficulty in diagnosing manic-depressive illness in conjunction with alcohol and substance abuse. How can these mimic one another?

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