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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. 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)?
(a) Jamie Davis Whitmer.
(b) Kenneth Casimir.
(c) Elyn Saks.
(d) Anissa Weier.

2. Who in Greek mythology calls for Persephone from the land of the dead once a year?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Ares.
(d) Artemis.

3. Who wrote Haunted Asylums: Stories of the Damned; Inside the Haunted Prisons, Wards, and Crazy Houses?
(a) Jamie Davis Whitmer.
(b) Steve Dorus.
(c) Kay Redfield.
(d) Lothell Tate.

4. Where did the author earn her MFA in fiction?
(a) The University of Louisiana.
(b) Yale University.
(c) The University of Michigan.
(d) Rutgers University.

5. According to the NIMH, what percent of the American population is diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder?
(a) 1.1%.
(b) 0.3%.
(c) 3.9%.
(d) 0.01%.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was the video of John Doe 28 found in a raid, according to the author in "John Doe, Psychosis"?

2. When did the author leave Yale for good?

3. What does "PDD" refer to?

4. How is the term "asylum" defined by the Oxford English Dictionary (96)?

5. For whom was Yale University named?

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