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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was depression seen in the thirteenth century?
(a) As normal.
(b) As a deathly, untreatable disease.
(c) As something intelligent people suffered from.
(d) As a sin.

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

3. What was depression referred to as before the term "depression" came about?
(a) Melancholia.
(b) Iratus.
(c) Low spirits.
(d) Disease of sadness.

4. How old is Lolly when Jeanne Miranda meets her?
(a) 18.
(b) 46.
(c) 34.
(d) 28.

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

6. How many of the impoverished, depressed men that Solomon interviewed were HIV positive?
(a) Half.
(b) None.
(c) All.
(d) A quarter.

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

8. Who is the first and only member of Congress to share their own mental health problems?
(a) Joe Rogers.
(b) Bill Kenney.
(c) Joe Maxwell.
(d) Lynn Rivers.

9. The suicide rate when up in the U.S. after the suicide of who?
(a) Brynn Hartman.
(b) Dave Garroway.
(c) Marilyn Monroe.
(d) Kurt Cobain.

10. How many items does the average American supermarket have in the produce department?
(a) More than 300.
(b) More than 500.
(c) More than 100.
(d) More than 50.

11. How often does someone in the U.S. commit suicide?
(a) Every three hours.
(b) Every 55 seconds.
(c) Every 17 minutes.
(d) Every five hours.

12. How old was Lolly when she began to be abused?
(a) Three months.
(b) 13.
(c) 6.
(d) 23.

13. When Solomon meets Angel, how many medications is she taking daily?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

14. Thomas Crowe believes that schizophrenia and affective disorders may be the price humans pay for having what?
(a) A moral code.
(b) Free will.
(c) A symmetrical brain.
(d) Every day stresses.

15. What senator was the first to introduce mental health legislation?
(a) Paul Wellstone.
(b) Pete Domenici.
(c) Tipper Gore.
(d) Bill Clay.

Short Answer Questions

1. What condition does Angel develop?

2. What percent of deaths in 1998 are attributed to suicides?

3. Who wrote Mourning and Melancholia?

4. The evolution of the condition of depression can be divided into how many stages?

5. How many groups of suicides are there?

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