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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. What university is Jeanne Miranda from?
(a) Sarah Lawrence.
(b) Brigham Young.
(c) Georgetown.
(d) Oral Roberts.

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

5. Freud says melancholic people have a keener eye for what?
(a) Innovation.
(b) Morality.
(c) Truth.
(d) Color.

6. The sons of mothers with untreated depression are more like likely to become what?
(a) Psychologists.
(b) Straight-A students.
(c) Juvenile delinquents.
(d) Depressed.

7. How many children is Lolly responsible for?
(a) Eleven.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

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

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

10. What field does Lolly find a job in?
(a) Sales.
(b) Cleaning.
(c) Administrative services.
(d) Childcare.

11. How much money do state and federal governments spend for poor adults and their children each year?
(a) $900 million.
(b) $300 million.
(c) $20 billion.
(d) $4 billion.

12. What is the name of the man who pushed a woman in front of the subway in New York?
(a) John Hinckley.
(b) Joe Rogers.
(c) Andrew Goldstein.
(d) Russel Weston.

13. Who wrote Mourning and Melancholia?
(a) Descartes.
(b) Plato.
(c) Ficino.
(d) Freud.

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

15. How much money does Solomon think the government could save per year by treating depressed people who are not working?
(a) $15 billion.
(b) $3.5 billion.
(c) $5.5 million.
(d) $125 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania?

2. What does Thomas Crowe believe about the primate brain that makes it different from the human brain?

3. What branch of the military does Lolly go on to work for?

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

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

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