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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wrote the Newsweek opinion piece titled "Charleston Massacre: Mental Illness Common Thread for Mass Shootings"?
(a) Joan Didion.
(b) Matthew Lysiak.
(c) Katie J. M. Baker.
(d) Andrew Solomon.

2. What drug does the author describe taking from 2013 to 2017 to keep her functioning without either delusions or hallucinations?
(a) Haloperidol.
(b) Lithium.
(c) Lamictal.
(d) Zoloft.

3. According to a piece that the author cites from the New York Times in "The Choice of Children," a child of a parent who has bipolar disorder is how many times more likely to develop the disorder than a child of a parent who does not?
(a) 20 times more likely.
(b) 4 times more likely.
(c) 13 times more likely.
(d) 8 times more likely.

4. What does "RAISE" stand for?
(a) Reflective Awareness of Intelligent Standards in Education.
(b) Recovery After an Initial Schizophrenia Episode.
(c) Reduced Associative Integrated Sequence Experience.
(d) Recovery Associated with Incapacitated Stoicism Exchange.

5. Who was the judge that presided over the Malcoum Tate murder trial?
(a) Don Rushing.
(b) Efrem Korngold.
(c) Christopher Bollas.
(d) Julian Plumadore.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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 What term refers to a psychiatric disorder in which a person holds a delusion that a friend or family member has been replaced by an identical impostor?

4. When did Eugen Bleuler coin the word "schizophrenia"?

5. What was the total NIMH budget for programs designed to address psychosis and treatment in 2017?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the author's mother regard the instances of mental health problems in her family?

2. What percentage of the American adult population are afflicted by the various schizophrenias?

3. What is Camp Wish and how was the author involved with it?

4. What was the first diagnosis the author received? How was she treated?

5. What is the DSM and why is it important?

6. When was the term "schizophrenia" coined and what are its root words?

7. Why does the author discuss the film The Exorcist in the book?

8. What book did the author's therapist recommend to her when she was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder? Why?

9. Why does the author support diagnosis in mental illness?

10. How does the author describe schizoaffective disorder?

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