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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. More than ten million people a year in the United States alone complain of symptoms of what?
(a) Reactive depression.
(b) Schizophrenia.
(c) Unipolar depression.
(d) Bipolar depression.

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

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

5. Patty Duke's panic attacks became very clear to her around what age?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 15.
(d) 8.

6. What door did Patty begin keeping open to prove to her sons that she had changed?
(a) Bathroom.
(b) Back door.
(c) Bedroom.
(d) Kitchen.

7. What is the name of Patty's oldest son?
(a) Sean.
(b) John.
(c) Patrick.
(d) Michael.

8. What ex-boyfriend of Patty's did she indirectly apologize to, by way of siblings or friends?
(a) Andrew.
(b) John.
(c) Desi.
(d) Michael.

9. How much older is Patty's brother than her?
(a) 2 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 1 year.

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

11. How old was Patty when her father died?
(a) 12.
(b) 19.
(c) 17.
(d) 14.

12. How old was Patty Duke when she was writing the book?
(a) 50.
(b) 45.
(c) 49.
(d) 41.

13. What kind of hat did Patty's father almost always wear?
(a) A bowler hat.
(b) A gray fedora.
(c) A top hat.
(d) A black fedora.

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

15. What is Patty's older sister's name?
(a) Carol.
(b) Alison.
(c) Donna.
(d) Elizabeth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the third book Patty is writing and says she's doing research for?

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. Whose research states that of the unipolar depressives who commit suicide most will have visited their doctor within the month?

4. What do some mental health experts refer to "the mixed states" as?

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

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