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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Who Gets Manic-Depressive Illness?.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Like manic-depressive illness, _______ usually begins late in adolescence and early adulthood and shares similar full-blown psychotic symptoms.
(a) Cyclythymes.
(b) Borderline personality disorder.
(c) Schizophrenia.
(d) Unipolar depression.

2. How old was Patty when she stopped living with her managers?
(a) 15.
(b) 12.
(c) 18.
(d) 25.

3. In 1985, Dr. Akiskal reported results of a study on how many children or younger siblings of adult bipolar patients?
(a) 68.
(b) 75.
(c) 60.
(d) 100.

4. In what year did Patty's parent's marry?
(a) 1940.
(b) 1937.
(c) 1941.
(d) 1945.

5. Patty duke writes, "____ was the most oppressive thing about living with the Rosses."
(a) Money.
(b) Longing.
(c) Danger.
(d) Fear.

Short Answer Questions

1. When was Patty Duke's first big, public manic episode?

2. What is the term for patients whose mood changes collide with one another, from month to month, day to day, sometimes even within the same day?

3. What percentage of unipolar depressives will eventually commit suicide?

4. Researchers believe that there is a link between the gene which may pass along traits of manic-depressive illness and what chromosome?

5. For the past year, Dr. McKnew has been treating two four-year-olds whom he diagnosed having manic-depression with what?

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