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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. The choice of what antidepressant to use is based on what factor?
(a) Dosage.
(b) Side effects.
(c) Symptons.
(d) Suicidal thoughts.

2. How many times does Solomon try to get off of Zyprexa?
(a) Seven.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Three.

3. Since the invention of television, the average night's sleep has decreased by how much?
(a) Two hours.
(b) Three hours.
(c) One hour.
(d) Thirty minutes.

4. What does a person have to experience to be able to love?
(a) Sacrifice for the one they love.
(b) True happiness.
(c) Hate.
(d) Despair at the loss of love.

5. How old is Solomon when his mother is diagnosed with cancer?
(a) Twenty.
(b) Eighteen.
(c) Twenty-five.
(d) Thirty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does ECT achieve its effect?

2. In the offspring of depressed mothers, earliest childhood depression is found in children as young as what age?

3. Who does Solomon move in with the same day he is prescribed Xanax and Zoloft?

4. What is the name of Maggie's alter ego?

5. What does a Holocaust survivor that Solomon meets focus on in the concentration camps?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were depressives viewed in the American colonies in the18th century?

2. Overall, how does Solomon feel about those who say they have been helped by alternative treatments?

3. What is the process of psychoanalysis like?

4. How does Solomon feel about antidepressants?

5. How might television play a role in depression?

6. How does Solomon feel about the prospect of eliminating suffering?

7. What is the relationship between lack of money and depression?

8. How does Solomon use a metaphor about finding a hole in the ozone layer to finding depression among the indigent Americans?

9. What does Rufus believe about depression or melancholy?

10. Why are family members of suicide victims more likely to see suicide as an option for themselves?

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