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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news does Solomon receive that makes him as sad as when his mother died?
(a) His childhood friend dies.
(b) He gets fired from his job.
(c) His analyst's retirement.
(d) His sister's divorce.

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

3. 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.

4. How many main treatments for depression are there?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

5. What depression model suggests that depression is sadness-feelings everyone has felt before, only on a more intense level?
(a) Bargaining.
(b) Behavioral.
(c) Categorical.
(d) Dimensional.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many models for depression are there?

2. Myrna Weissman is from what school?

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

4. What is Solomon too afraid to do while going through his breakdown?

5. Men synthesize serotonin how much faster than women?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thomas Crowe believe about schizophrenia?

2. According to the text, why do depression medications work so well?

3. How do life changes affect depression?

4. What does Hippocrates believe about depression?

5. What effect can a mother's depression have on her kids?

6. Why does Solomon suggest that women might be more likely to experience depression than men?

7. What does Rufus believe about depression or melancholy?

8. How does Solomon feel about the current century?

9. How were depressives viewed in the American colonies in the18th century?

10. Describe the four groups of suicides.

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