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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 theory involving the origins of schizophrenia does Frieda Fromm-Reichmann help develop?
(a) The schizophrenogenic child.
(b) The schizophrenogenic mother.
(c) The schizophrenogenic home.
(d) The schizophrenogenic father.

2. What is the name of Mimi and Don’s first child?
(a) Richard.
(b) Donald.
(c) Matthew.
(d) Brian.

3. Whom does Jim marry in Chapter 8?
(a) Katie.
(b) Kathy.
(c) Kelly.
(d) Karen.

4. As Donald enters college in Chapter 6, what career does he intend to follow?
(a) Education.
(b) Law.
(c) Politics.
(d) Medicine.

5. What theory do Irving Gottesman and James Shields publish on the origins of schizophrenia, as explained in Chapter 14?
(a) The Polylogic Theory.
(b) The Polytonic Theory.
(c) The Polymorphic Theory.
(d) The Polygenic Theory.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Dr. Pfeiffer in Chapter 19, what is to blame for the boys’ mental illness?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 12, every member of the Galvin family operates in a world without what?

3. What is the Farm, as explained in Chapter 21?

4. What medical event does Don Galvin experience in Chapter 17?

5. By what name is adult Mary called, as revealed in the prologue?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Robert Freedman discover in Chapter 24? What does he develop as a result?

2. What dynamic exists among the Galvin boys in Chapter 5? How do their parents handle this dynamic?

3. Who is Lynn DeLisi and for what does she begin searching in Chapter 18?

4. What does the community think about the Galvins, as explained in Chapter 15?

5. What traumatic experience begins to happen to Margaret and Mary in Chapter 12? How do they react to this trauma? Why?

6. Who is Father Freudenstein and why does he become close to the Galvins in Chapter 3?

7. What change does Mary experience to her home situation in Chapter 23?

8. What tragedies befall Mary in Chapter 23? How does she react to them?

9. How is Margaret affected by her home life, as revealed in Chapter 11?

10. What theories gain momentum in Chapter 14? Which researchers make such claims?

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