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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what neighborhood did Patty's parents grow up?
(a) Bed-Stuy.
(b) Park Slope.
(c) Astoria.
(d) Kips Bay.

2. Patty Duke's panic attacks almost always revolved around what?
(a) Being on subways.
(b) Her own death.
(c) Being left alone.
(d) The death of others.

3. When Patty was about 12, where was her mother living?
(a) Queens.
(b) Brooklyn.
(c) New Jersey.
(d) The Bronx.

4. Dr Elliot Gershon says that manic-depressive illness may have something to do with ________.
(a) Infancy risk.
(b) Associative bipolarism.
(c) Assortative mating.
(d) Acclimancy factor.

5. Chapter 1, Looking Backward is written in the style of what?
(a) Fiction.
(b) Speculative fiction.
(c) Memoir.
(d) Biography.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How old was Patty's father when he died?

3. When was Patty's mother diagnosed with unipolar depression?

4. In a study in Belgium, what percent of birth parents whose adopted children had manic depression had a history of mood disorders?

5. In a 1969-research project at Washington University in St. Louis, researchers found that in two families, everyone that was ______ was also manic-depressive.

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bipolar II.

2. How can doctors distinguish between unipolar and bipolar depression?

3. Describe the three personality types discussed by Dr. Akiskal in Chapter 4.

4. What does Patty remember of her mother as a child? Where was Patty relocated during her childhood?

5. When are patients typically diagnosed with bipolar depression?

6. What are the similarities of manic depression and schizophrenia? What are the differences?

7. Describe Patty Duke's father.

8. Discuss the genetic findings for manic-depressive illness.

9. What led up to the manic episode which led to Patty's first marriage?

10. What do doctors say regarding environmental elements contributing to manic depression?

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