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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 American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System?
(a) Elyn Saks.
(b) E. Fuller Torrey.
(c) Michael Duewel.
(d) Jamie Davis Whitmer.

2. When did Dr. Jules Cotard define Cotard's delusion?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1926.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1919.

3. When was the action-thriller-sci-fi movie Lucy released?
(a) April, 2015.
(b) September, 2016.
(c) July, 2014.
(d) March, 2011.

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

5. Who involved in the Payton Leutner stabbing was diagnosed with schizophrenia?
(a) Jamie Davis Whitmer.
(b) Morgan Geyser.
(c) Elyn Saks.
(d) Payton Leutner.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who involved in the Payton Leutner stabbing had pages of drawings of the Slender Man that were found in her journals?

2. When was the film A Beautiful Mind released?

3. Who directed A Beautiful Mind?

4. When did the trials for the Payton Leutner stabbing take place?

5. According to the Department of Justice, how many "people with mental illness are incarcerated in state and federal jails and prisons" (110)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the premise of the film Lucy described in "Reality, On-Screen"?

2. How did the author respond to watching the film Lucy?

3. How does the author describe the term "asylum" and associations with that word in "On the Ward"?

4. Describe the Payton Leutner stabbing. When did it take place and who was involved?

5. What is "CBT"?

6. Who wrote Ten Days in a Mad-House? What was this piece about?

7. What is the Slender Man?

8. What are the three major components of treatment for schizophrenics in psychiatric crisis, according to the American Psychiatric Association's Practice Guideline for the Treatment of Patients with Schizophrenia, second edition?

9. What television show does the author describe turning to when her sense of reality becomes questionable due to films or literature?

10. What is Capgras delusion and how has it affected the author?

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