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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who formed the idea that the brain controls the central nervous system?
(a) Plato.
(b) Menodotus.
(c) Herophilius.
(d) Hippocrates.

2. Angel is the youngest in a family of how many?
(a) Nine.
(b) Seven.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

3. How many groups of suicides are there?
(a) Thirteen.
(b) Nine.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

4. What topic has Richard J. Davidson been working with?
(a) Gene reproduction.
(b) Capacity for depression.
(c) Brain symmetry.
(d) Relationships between children and parents.

5. How many of the impoverished, depressed men that Solomon interviewed were HIV positive?
(a) None.
(b) A quarter.
(c) All.
(d) Half.

6. The sons of mothers with untreated depression are more like likely to become what?
(a) Juvenile delinquents.
(b) Depressed.
(c) Psychologists.
(d) Straight-A students.

7. What does Representative Roukema's spouse do for a living?
(a) Software designer.
(b) Psychiatrist.
(c) Police officer.
(d) Pharmacist.

8. Who is the executive director of the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania?
(a) Joe Rogers.
(b) Russel Weston.
(c) Andrew Goldstein.
(d) Lynn Rivers.

9. In Richard J. Davidson's work, how often does he take photos of the brain?
(a) Every two and a half seconds.
(b) Every half second.
(c) Every eighty seconds.
(d) Every three minutes.

10. What kind of job does Angel get?
(a) Bagging groceries.
(b) Cleaning gutters.
(c) Baby sitting.
(d) Walking dogs.

11. Right-side brain activation is tied to high baseline levels of what?
(a) Melatonin.
(b) Cortisol.
(c) Estrogen.
(d) Prolactin.

12. How many children is Lolly responsible for?
(a) Eight.
(b) Six.
(c) Eleven.
(d) Fifteen.

13. When Solomon meets Angel, how many medications is she taking daily?
(a) Ten.
(b) Fifteen.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Five.

14. The evolution of the condition of depression can be divided into how many stages?
(a) Three.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Eight.

15. What percent of Americans fall below the poverty line?
(a) 11.3 percent.
(b) 5.4 percent.
(c) 13.7 percent.
(d) 8.6 percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. From whom do we get the first true description of psychoanalysis?

2. Who suggested that suicide was a murderous impulse toward another person?

3. What is Angel covered from head to toe in?

4. What season do most suicides take place?

5. What university is Richard J. Davidson from?

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