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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Reality, On Screen" - "Perdition Days".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At what age did the author begin to read?
(a) 3.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

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

3. What did the accused believe the Slender Man would do after they stabbed Peyton Leutner?
(a) Turn them into proxies.
(b) Turn them into vampires.
(c) Kill their families.
(d) Bring them gifts.

4. How is the term "asylum" defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (96)?
(a) "A place of haven or safety."
(b) "A place for patients with mental illness."
(c) "A place for medical treatment."
(d) "A place of involuntary holding."

5. What is the Russian word "gibel" synonymous with, according to the author in "Diagnosis" (3)?
(a) Illness.
(b) Intrigue.
(c) Catastrophe.
(d) Deception.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is quoted from the documentary about Payton Leutner's stabbing in saying, "It bears saying that schizophrenia, in and of itself, is not a dangerous illness" (120)?

2. When did the author leave Yale for good?

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

4. Who stars in the film Lucy?

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

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