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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. When did the author experience her first auditory hallucination?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2001.
(d) 2009.

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

3. What does "MADD" stand for?
(a) Mental Awareness for Drunk Driving.
(b) Mental Awareness and Diagnosis of Detriment.
(c) Mental Awareness Drug Diagnosis.
(d) Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

4. Who is the evolutionary geneticist and coauthor of the paper "Adaptive Evolution in Genes Defining Schizophrenia" that is cited by the author in "Diagnosis"?
(a) Efrem Korngold.
(b) Steve Dorus.
(c) Kay Redfield.
(d) Christopher Bollas.

5. Who wrote the book No One Cares about Crazy People?
(a) Efrem Korngold.
(b) Christopher Bollas.
(c) Ron Powers.
(d) Don Rushing.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the film The Exorcist released?

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 What term refers to a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend or family member has been replaced by an identical impostor?

3. What psychoanalyst defines "schizophrenic presence" as the psychodynamic experience of "being with [a schizophrenic] who has seemingly crossed over from the human world to the non-human environment" (3)?

4. The author asserts that while depression is often compared to diabetes, schizophrenia is compared to what disorder?

5. According to the NIMH, what percent of the American population is diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder?

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