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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. Who involved in the Payton Leutner stabbing had pages of drawings of the Slender Man that were found in her journals?
2. What word from the text is an adjective relating to or denoting the period between the appearance of initial symptoms and the full development of an outbreak?
3. When was the film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire released?
4. When was the film A Beautiful Mind released?
5. What did the author's therapist prescribe her due to her nightmares from PTSD when she was diagnosed?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Capgras delusion and how has it affected the author?
2. What treatment did the author's therapist recommend when she developed PTSD?
3. How does the author describe the term "asylum" and associations with that word in "On the Ward"?
4. Why did the author contact the FBI regarding "John Doe"?
5. How did the author's literary tastes change when she developed PTSD?
6. Who wrote Ten Days in a Mad-House? What was this piece about?
7. What is the Slender Man?
8. What does "5150" refer to?
9. What did Jen Percy write in the book Demon Camp about the neurological consequences of trauma?
10. Describe the Payton Leutner stabbing. When did it take place and who was involved?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
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
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?
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