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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "High Functioning" - "The Choice of Children".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who developed the 12-session course called Family-to-Family for NAMI?
(a) Andrew Solomon.
(b) Joyce Burland.
(c) Christopher Bollas.
(d) Colleen Duewel.

2. Who was the judge that presided over the Malcoum Tate murder trial?
(a) Efrem Korngold.
(b) Julian Plumadore.
(c) Christopher Bollas.
(d) Don Rushing.

3. When did Eugen Bleuler coin the word "schizophrenia"?
(a) 1898.
(b) 1889.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1919.

4. What does the author assert having said attending a "prestigious university" was, in "High Functioning" (45)?
(a) "A signifier of wealth."
(b) "A signifier of worth."
(c) "A signifier of sanity."
(d) "A signifier of knowledge."

5. When did Emil Kraepelin pinpoint the disorder he called "dementia praecox"?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1919.
(c) 1923.
(d) 1884.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term refers to a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend or family member has been replaced by an identical impostor?

2. When was Malcoum Tate diagnosed with schizophrenia?

3. What does "anhedonia" mean?

4. According to a piece that the author cites from the New York Times in "The Choice of Children," a child of a parent who has bipolar disorder is how many times more likely to develop the disorder than a child of a parent who does not?

5. Who wrote the memoir Furiously Happy: A Funny Book about Horrible Things?

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