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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Betsy overcome her depression?
(a) Through her teaching job.
(b) Through her poetry.
(c) Through her cat Sampson.
(d) Through her Catholic faith.

2. In the offspring of depressed mothers, earliest childhood depression is found in children as young as what age?
(a) Twenty-six months.
(b) Three months.
(c) One year.
(d) Fourteen months.

3. What are the most popular type of antidepressants?
(a) MAOIs.
(b) SSRIs.
(c) Tricycles.
(d) Atypical.

4. How many models for depression are there?
(a) Ten.
(b) Eight.
(c) Two.
(d) Four.

5. As a child, Solomon was teased because other boys thought he was what?
(a) Gay.
(b) Too smart.
(c) Depressed.
(d) Overweight.

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

7. When taking antidepressants, how long does it take to see noticeable results?
(a) Almost a year.
(b) Ten to fifteen days.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two to six weeks.

8. What is the name of the person Solomon meets who uses homeopathic remedies successfully?
(a) Maria.
(b) Claudia.
(c) Rhoda.
(d) Angelica.

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

10. What is the average age of depression sufferers?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) Twenty-six.
(c) Thirty-nine.
(d) Sixty-four.

11. Who says that it makes evolutionary sense for women to be sensitive to loss?
(a) Alex Tomlin.
(b) Myrna Weissman.
(c) Susan Smith.
(d) George Brown.

12. What is Martha Manning's profession?
(a) Artist.
(b) Author.
(c) Nurse.
(d) Scientist.

13. A civil war in what country resulted in 20 percent of the population dying?
(a) The United States.
(b) Turkey.
(c) Cambodia.
(d) Brazil.

14. Where was eye movement desensitization and reprocessing first used?
(a) Egypt.
(b) Canada.
(c) Turkey.
(d) Japan.

15. What type of drug is heroine?
(a) Antidepressants.
(b) Opiates.
(c) Benzos.
(d) Hallucinogens.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the text, marijuana has been known to affect what?

2. Solomon sites a study on what animal that showed the animal went psychotic without their mothers?

3. What type of therapy does Gerald Klerman formulate?

4. What does Solomon forget how to do when he had his first big breakdown?

5. What is the biggest deterrent for people to not become addicted?

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