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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. 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?

2. Who starred in the film A Beautiful Mind?

3. When was the paper "On Being Sane in Insane Places" published?

4. What does "CBT" refer to?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Slender Man?

2. What is "EMDR"?

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

4. What are first-generation antipsychotics and why are they less prescribed than second-generation antipsychotics?

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

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 mental health crisis in the United States today and the different outlooks there are for improving it. What are some of the greatest problems we face? How do you think these problems should be best addressed? What are the major conflicts in resolving these issues?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the theme of mental illness and family relationships in The Collected Schizophrenias. What are some of the examples presented by the author in her exploration of this topic? How does she regard her own family relationships? What have been her greatest struggles in those relationships?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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