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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the cemetery which Patty passed going to visit her mother where she always had panic attacks?
(a) Webster.
(b) Calvary.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Rose Hill.

2. What does Bipolar III indicate?
(a) Manic all of the time.
(b) Depressive with mixed states.
(c) Medicated into mania.
(d) Manic most of the time.

3. What is Patty Duke's mother's name?
(a) Lizzie.
(b) Dolores.
(c) Frances.
(d) Sara.

4. Who was the sister who raised Patty Duke's mother?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Lizzie.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Eleanor.

5. What is the term for depressions which are a normal response to a major trauma?
(a) Reactive depression.
(b) Unipolar depression.
(c) Actuary depression.
(d) Normal depression.

6. Whose research states that of the unipolar depressives who commit suicide most will have visited their doctor within the month?
(a) Dr. George Murphy.
(b) Dr. Frederick Wolverson.
(c) Dr. Seymor J. Williams.
(d) Dr. Emily Watson.

7. In a 1969-research project at Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found that in two families, everyone that was ______ was also manic-depressive.
(a) Male.
(b) Female.
(c) Left-handed.
(d) Color-blind.

8. What is the name of the woman who, at the age of forty-five, relates her experiences in Chapter 2 in "Only One Mania" ?
(a) Sara.
(b) Lauren.
(c) Michelle.
(d) Dawn.

9. How many pills of lithium does Patty Duke take per day?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

10. Who was the couple who managed Patty Duke as a child?
(a) The Rosses.
(b) The Steiners.
(c) The Fitzmaurices.
(d) The Gardners.

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

12. What is the term for "mild ups and downs"?
(a) Cyclothymes.
(b) Semipolar.
(c) Demimaniac.
(d) Unipolar.

13. How much older is Patty's sister than her?
(a) 8 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 3 years.
(d) 2 years.

14. Patty writes, "I believe that ______ is counterproductive, so in an almost selfish way it was important for me to forgive."
(a) Misery.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Bitterness.
(d) Rage.

15. Every few months, Patty says she gets a what taste in her mouth?
(a) Sour.
(b) Sweet.
(c) Metallic.
(d) Bitter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the 38-year-old woman mentioned in Chapter 2 who moved nine times in three years and consistently changed careers?

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

3. What researcher from Yale University School of Medicine participated in the study from Jerusalem on genetic connections?

4. In what person is Chapter 1 written?

5. Patty Duke did not recall having any manias before the age of what?

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