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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 medical event does Mimi experience in Chapter 39?
(a) She has a seizure.
(b) She begins vomiting blood.
(c) She has a stroke.
(d) She has a heart attack.

2. Who tries to talk Margaret out of her engagement, as explained in Chapter 25?
(a) Wyatt.
(b) Wylie.
(c) Winston.
(d) William.

3. What career path Kate does want to follow, as explained in Chapter 45?
(a) Law.
(b) Computing.
(c) Art.
(d) Research.

4. Of what does Don Galvin die in Chapter 35?
(a) Stroke.
(b) Heart failure.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Cancer.

5. At what annual symposium does Robert Freedman speak in Chapter 37?
(a) The Mind and Brain Research Foundation.
(b) The Mind and Body Research Foundation.
(c) The Brain and Behavior Research Foundation.
(d) The Blood and Brain Research Foundation.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who begins volunteering after a change in medication, as explained in Chapter 28?

2. How does Margaret describe her mother’s description of her daughters, as explained in Chapter 42?

3. Who is Stefan McDonough, as explained in Chapter 36?

4. Lynn DeLisi’s research is shut down when her pharmaceutical company is bought by whom, as explained in Chapter 33?

5. In what year does Jim die, as discussed in Chapter 35?

Short Essay Questions

1. What memory does Margaret have about her mother in Chapter 42? What does she think of this memory?

2. According to the author in Chapter 43, what has not changed regarding schizophrenia? What has changed?

3. How have the older boys changed over time, as explained in Chapter 28? What has caused these changes?

4. What is CHRNA7? What possible treatment does it inspire, as explained in Chapter 37?

5. What does Robert Freedman attempt to develop in Chapter 32? Who shuts him down? Why?

6. What does Lindsay begin to consider in Chapter 25? What makes her consider this?

7. What kindness does Lindsay perform in Chapter 30? Why? What is the effect of her kind act?

8. What is SHANK2 and what do researchers discover about it in Chapter 36?

9. What does Robert Freedman discover about the Galvins in Chapter 32?

10. What does Lindsay discover in Chapter 41? How does she discover these things?

(see the answer keys)

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