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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 expose titled Ten Days in a Mad-House?
(a) Nellie Bly.
(b) Jamie Davis Whitmer.
(c) Colleen Duewel.
(d) Lothell Tate.

2. How old was Morgan Geyser when she was charged with stabbing Payton Leutner?
(a) 11.
(b) 16.
(c) 14.
(d) 12.

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

4. Who wrote the paper "On Being Sane in Insane Places"?
(a) Elyn Saks.
(b) Jamie Davis Whitmer.
(c) Colleen Duewel.
(d) David Rosenhan.

5. Who directed A Beautiful Mind?
(a) Luc Besson.
(b) Roger Morton.
(c) Ron Howard.
(d) David Lynch.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who starred in the film A Beautiful Mind?

2. When did the author marry her husband?

3. Who wrote Haunted Asylums: Stories of the Damned; Inside the Haunted Prisons, Wards, and Crazy Houses?

4. Who wrote the award-winning novel Home?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the Slender Man?

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

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

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

6. What did Jen Percy write in the book Demon Camp about the neurological consequences of trauma?

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

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

9. How does the author describe her first psychotic symptoms while in her senior year at Stanford?

10. What treatment did the author's therapist recommend when she developed PTSD?

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