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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Diagnosis" - "Toward a Pathology of the Possessed".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who claimed "We are our choices" (31)?
(a) Sartre.
(b) Aristophanes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Homer.

2. At what universities did the author study for her undergraduate degree?
(a) Princeton and Yale.
(b) Yale and Stanford.
(c) Harvard and Princeton.
(d) Harvard and Yale.

3. According to the author, the ancient Egyptians described a condition similar to schizophrenia that was attributed to the dangerous influence of poison where in the body?
(a) The kidneys and liver.
(b) The heart and uterus.
(c) The pancreas and brain.
(d) The spleen and liver.

4. Who is NAMI's director of education, training, and peer support center that is quoted by the author in "Toward a Pathology of the Possessed" (34)?
(a) Efrem Korngold.
(b) Christopher Bollas.
(c) Colleen Duewel.
(d) Joyce Burland.

5. When was the film The Exorcist released?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1977.
(c) 1973.
(d) 1984.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the manager of the antistigma speakers' bureau SOLVE?

2. What word in the text refers to the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between independent elements?

3. When was the author diagnosed with late-stage Lyme disease?

4. In what month was the author born?

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 What term refers to a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend or family member has been replaced by an identical impostor?

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