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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. Where was Payton Leutner stabbed?

2. Who starred in the film A Beautiful Mind?

3. How is the word "anhedonia" defined (148)?

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

5. When did Dr. Jules Cotard define Cotard's delusion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the author describe her obsession with The NeverEnding Story?

3. What is "CBT"?

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

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

6. When did the author develop PTSD? What had caused it?

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

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

9. What is the difference between a delusion and a hallucination?

10. What is Cotard's delusion? How has it affected the author?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the correlations between art, creativity, genius, and mental illness. What are examples given by the author for artists who suffered from mental illness? How did those artists benefit from mental illness? How did they suffer from it?

Essay Topic 2

Define and discuss post-traumatic stress disorder. What are the symptoms of this disorder? How is it diagnosed? How is it treated? What is the prognosis for someone with PTSD? How has PTSD affected the author?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the story of the Slender Man and the Payton Leutner stabbing. Why does the author reference this story in the book? How does she relate to the stabbing and the obsession with Slender Man? What was the outcome of the trial?

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