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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far into writing this book is Solomon when he realizes the purpose for writing it?
(a) One-fourth.
(b) One-half.
(c) Three-fouths.
(d) Two-thirds.

2. Depression is most closely tied to what feeling?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Apathy.
(c) Anger.
(d) Grief.

3. What mental illness does Paul Wellstone's brother suffer from?
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Bipolar disorder.
(c) Anorexia.
(d) Depression.

4. From whom do we get the first true description of psychoanalysis?
(a) Henry Maudsley.
(b) Emil Kraeplin.
(c) Adolf Meyer.
(d) Karl Abraham.

5. Ancient Greeks believed depression was caused by bile of what color?
(a) Red.
(b) Blue.
(c) White.
(d) Black.

6. What is Angel's last name?
(a) Gibbons.
(b) Marcel.
(c) Starky.
(d) Connor.

7. Who says, "Depressed people don't nag enough."?
(a) Tipper Gore.
(b) Mike Wallace.
(c) Lynn Rivers.
(d) William Styron.

8. How many suicide attempts are there for every successful suicide?
(a) Seven.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Twenty-two.
(d) Four.

9. In Richard J. Davidson's work, how often does he take photos of the brain?
(a) Every half second.
(b) Every two and a half seconds.
(c) Every three minutes.
(d) Every eighty seconds.

10. What day do many suicides take place?
(a) Monday.
(b) Friday.
(c) Sunday.
(d) Thursday.

11. Who suggested that suicide was a murderous impulse toward another person?
(a) Hume.
(b) Jung.
(c) Freud.
(d) Maslow.

12. Veterans of what war make up a large part of the homeless population in the U.S.?
(a) Desert Storm.
(b) The Cold War.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) WWII.

13. Who came up with four suicide types that are no longer used today?
(a) Michael Owens.
(b) Antonio Longoria.
(c) Emile Durkheim.
(d) Arnold Schwartz.

14. Who does Solomon write about for this book?
(a) People who need the most attention.
(b) People he can relate to.
(c) People he pities.
(d) People he admires.

15. What topic has Richard J. Davidson been working with?
(a) Capacity for depression.
(b) Relationships between children and parents.
(c) Brain symmetry.
(d) Gene reproduction.

Short Answer Questions

1. When did the term "depression" come to be?

2. How many items does the average American supermarket have in the produce department?

3. What question has been largely ignored in the medical field regarding depression?

4. The suicide rate when up in the U.S. after the suicide of who?

5. What is Angel covered from head to toe in?

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