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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. What is one of the common issues of families with a manic-depressive child?
(a) Feelings of wishful thinking.
(b) Money issues.
(c) Feelings of hatred.
(d) Parents disagreeing over care.

2. What did Patty often throw during her manic episodes?
(a) Her Oscar.
(b) Her shoes.
(c) Her wigs.
(d) Her jewelry.

3. What did Patty Duke also do with the docudrama she made for television?
(a) Operated the camera.
(b) Designed sound.
(c) Directed.
(d) Produced.

4. In what year did Patty Duke end up at Dr. Arlen's home at 2 a.m. having a manic episode?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1985.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1977.

5. How many children did John Astin have from his previous marriage?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) One.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was John Astin's 12-year-old son who came to live with him and Patty?

2. What often happens to families in which there is a manic-depressive child?

3. Who writes, "For every Hemingway, there are thousands of manic-depressives whose lives are ruined"?

4. What is the name of the mother whose daughter convinced her to seek therapy and lithium changed her life?

5. In what year was lithium's effects on mania discovered?

Short Essay Questions

1. What would happen in the fights between John Astin and Patty?

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

3. What concerns doctors in discussing manic depression and creativity?

4. What happens after hospitalization with bipolar patients?

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

6. What does Patty Duke conclude regarding talent and manic depression?

7. Discuss alcoholism and writers as discussed in the text.

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

9. What can be the result of siblings coping with someone with manic depression?

10. What led to Patty overcoming her fear of death?

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