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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. Who was the associate producer of Patty's television docudrama?
(a) Jessica Warden.
(b) Lily Andrews.
(c) Sarah Smithson.
(d) Peggy Griffin.

2. Who was the director of the television movie Patty Duke made about her illness?
(a) Gil Cates.
(b) John Landing.
(c) Andrew Brucker.
(d) James Smead.

3. In what year did Patty marry her current husband?
(a) 1989.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1986.

4. Who is the Stanley Harris Senior Professor and chairman of the department of psychiatry at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center?
(a) Dr. Jan Fawcett.
(b) Dr. Christopher Janson.
(c) Dr. Michael Overman.
(d) Dr. Brian Bateman.

5. From what play comes the line, "The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact"?
(a) A Winter's Tale.
(b) Romeo and Juliet.
(c) A Midsummer Night's Dream.
(d) Hamlet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year did Patty Duke end up at Dr. Arlen's home at 2 a.m. having a manic episode?

2. What is another name for the drug trazodone?

3. Who is one of the authors of the book Manic-Depressive Illness and an associate professor of psychiatry at John Hopkins University?

4. What is the married son's name whose mother saw the signs of his oncoming manic depression in Chapter 10?

5. Who adapted the screenplay for the television docudrama on Patty's life?

Short Essay Questions

1. Discuss the effects of parents who pass on manic-depression to their children.

2. What did making Call Me Anna cause Patty to see about manic depression and its effects on acting?

3. What "gift" does Patty Duke conclude she gained from her illness?

4. What pressures did Patty put on herself in her family life? How did these lead to episodes?

5. What is Patty's biggest regret about her behavior before she was diagnosed?

6. What led to Patty's depressions early in her marriage to John Astin?

7. What is lithium? How did it come to be discovered?

8. What are the effects of dealing with a parent with manic depression?

9. Discuss anticonvulsants and neuroleptics.

10. What happens after hospitalization with bipolar patients?

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