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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, My Little Beige Pill.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Patty Duke says that one of the few, slight side effects she gets from the lithium is what?
(a) Weight gain.
(b) Nausea.
(c) Hair loss.
(d) Tremors.

2. Researchers believe that there is a link between the gene which may pass along traits of manic-depressive illness and what chromosome?
(a) X.
(b) B.
(c) Y.
(d) O.

3. When was Patty's mother diagnosed with unipolar depression?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1990.

4. 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?
(a) Schizophrenics.
(b) Frequency bipolars.
(c) Multicyclers.
(d) Rapid cyclers.

5. Patty Duke did not recall having any manias before the age of what?
(a) 15.
(b) 22.
(c) 19.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. What psychiatric hospital did Patty's first husband take her to in Los Angeles?

2. Who was the sister who raised Patty Duke's mother?

3. Patty Duke's panic attacks almost always revolved around what?

4. What is Patty Duke's mother's name?

5. What is the term for depressions which are a normal response to a major trauma?

(see the answer key)

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