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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the camp at Camp Wish last?

2. Who claimed "We are our choices" (31)?

3. When was the Strengthening Mental Health in Our Communities Act (HR 4574) passed?

4. When did Margaret Holloway (the "Shakespeare Lady") graduate from Yale School of Drama?

5. What anticonfulsant and mood stabilizer was the author first prescribed at the Yale Department of Mental Hygiene?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author describe the different perceptions of depression and schizophrenia in the book?

2. What article from Newsweek by Katie J. M. Baker in 2014 is discussed in the book? What is the premise of this article?

3. What is a "mixed episode"?

4. How does the author describe schizoaffective disorder?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the methods and means by which the author attempts to overcome her personal insecurities related to her schizoaffective disorder. How does her appearance come into play in this regard? What does she point out regarding her achievements? How does she relate herself to others with this disorder?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the narrative style and structure of The Collected Schizophrenias. How conversational is the narrative? How does it change from one essay to the next? How are the essays ordered, and why are they ordered this way?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss some of the limitations of Western Medicine that the author explores in the book. In what ways is psychiatry an imperfect science? How has it and how can it improve? What alternatives has the author turned to and why?

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