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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 is the central subject of A Beautiful Mind?
(a) John Nash.
(b) John F. Kennedy.
(c) Charles Lindberg.
(d) Kay Redfield.

2. Who wrote the book Demon Camp?
(a) Jen Percy.
(b) Kay Redfield.
(c) Luc Besson.
(d) Andrew Solomon.

3. Where was the author located when she was hospitalized for the third time for her mental illness?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New York.
(c) Louisiana.
(d) New Mexico.

4. According to the Department of Justice, how many "people with mental illness are incarcerated in state and federal jails and prisons" (110)?
(a) "Nearly 1.3 million."
(b) "Nearly 1 million."
(c) "Nearly 1.8 million."
(d) "Nearly 2.3 million."

5. When was the Microsoft Home CD-ROM version of the film Dinosaurs released?
(a) 1993.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2001.
(d) 1987.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who wrote the novel The Snowman?

2. When was the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire released?

3. Who wrote the Millennium trilogy?

4. Who wrote The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul?

5. Who wrote American Psychosis: How the Federal Government Destroyed the Mental Illness Treatment System?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the Slender Man?

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

4. What was the outcome in the trial regarding Payton Leutner's stabbing?

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

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

7. How did the Slender Man legend play into the stabbing of Payton Leutner?

8. Why did the author contact the FBI regarding "John Doe"?

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

10. How did the author's literary tastes change when she developed PTSD?

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