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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. What term refers to a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend or family member has been replaced by an identical impostor?
(a) Trappers delusion.
(b) Worden delusion.
(c) Cornwall delusion.
(d) Capgras delusion.

2. 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) Christopher Bollas.
(b) Colleen Duewel.
(c) Efrem Korngold.
(d) Joyce Burland.

3. When did the author first work for Camp Wish?
(a) 2001.
(b) 2003.
(c) 2011.
(d) 2007.

4. What percentage of the American adult population is afflicted with schizophrenia, according to the NIMH?
(a) 0.01%.
(b) 0.3%.
(c) 1.1%.
(d) 3.9%.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act (HR 4574) passed?

2. When did the author leave Yale for good?

3. Who is the evolutionary geneticist and coauthor of the paper "Adaptive Evolution in Genes Defining Schizophrenia" that is cited by the author in "Diagnosis"?

4. What is the percentage chance of identical twins both developing schizophrenia despite their shared genes, according to seminal twin studies in the 1960s?

5. What does "PDD" refer to?

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