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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What talking therapy teaches the patient objectivity?
(a) Interpersonal therapy.
(b) Cognitive-behavioral therapy.
(c) Group therapy.
(d) Objective therapy.

2. Solomon sites a study on what animal that showed the animal went psychotic without their mothers?
(a) Rats.
(b) Dolphins.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Monkeys.

3. Elavil, Tofranil, and Pamelor are types of what antidepressant?
(a) MAOIs.
(b) SSRIs.
(c) Atypical.
(d) Tricycles.

4. What year does Solomon get a new age massage?
(a) 1999.
(b) 2001.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1986.

5. Who does Solomon give a lecture on during his breakdown?
(a) Emily Dickinson.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Virginia Woolf.
(d) Marilyn Monroe.

6. Depression is the leading cause of what in the U.S. and abroad in people over the age of 5?
(a) Suicide.
(b) Disability.
(c) Hospitalization.
(d) Crime.

7. How many symptoms of depression does the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual list?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) Twleve.

8. What playwright is quoted at the beginning of Alternatives?
(a) Chekhov.
(b) Miller.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Marlowe.

9. What kind of job does Jaime have?
(a) Teaching.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Government.
(d) Retail.

10. What sort of surgery does Frank receive?
(a) Craniotomy.
(b) Cingulotomy.
(c) Lobotomy.
(d) Hemicraniectomy.

11. What does a Holocaust survivor that Solomon meets focus on in the concentration camps?
(a) Her hair.
(b) Her children.
(c) Escaping.
(d) A mouse.

12. How does male depression manifest itself many times?
(a) With violence.
(b) With dispair.
(c) With a feeling of increased intelligence.
(d) With a sense of hunger.

13. What sort of men is Tina drawn to?
(a) Gloomy.
(b) Humorous.
(c) Clingy.
(d) Violent.

14. How often does ECT have a significant impact?
(a) 100 percent of the time.
(b) 15 to 20 percent of the time.
(c) 30 to 50 percent of the time.
(d) 75 to 90 percent of the time.

15. What medical problem does Solomon develop after his first book comes out?
(a) Liver disease.
(b) A rash.
(c) Migraine headaches.
(d) Kidney stones.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Betsy overcome her depression?

2. What is the name of the person Solomon meets who uses homeopathic remedies successfully?

3. How much more likely are men to commit suicide than women?

4. What are the most common addictive substances?

5. What percent of depressed people commit suicide as a result?

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