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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison's father find it difficult to do when he is clinically depressed?
(a) Play ping pong
(b) Talk on the phone
(c) Get out of bed
(d) Go for walks

2. At what school is Jamison a psychiatrist?
(a) John Hopkins University of Medicine
(b) Yale University
(c) Oxford University
(d) Sir John Moores University

3. Where does Jamison's psychiatrist take her when Jamison insists she wants to be alone?
(a) To London
(b) To a hockey match
(c) To a cematory
(d) For an ice cream

4. What do the students eat in her zoology class?
(a) Lobsters
(b) Snails
(c) Crabs
(d) Oysters

5. What happened to the pilot in the military jet?
(a) He burned to death
(b) He lost an arm
(c) He lost his legs
(d) He broke his back

6. What is manic depression also known as?
(a) Manic moods
(b) Bi-polar
(c) SAD
(d) Black dog

7. What does Jamison say happens after several years of taking lithium?
(a) She loses her creative spark
(b) Her moods begin to level out
(c) She becomes immune
(d) She puts on weight

8. What does Jamison say she must do before she becomes associate professor?
(a) Remarry
(b) Admit her problems
(c) Simplify her life
(d) Get off lithium

9. What do David and Jamison meet for almost every day?
(a) Handover
(b) Tea
(c) Dinner
(d) Lunch

10. What does Jamison find it difficult doing when she is on lithium?
(a) Eating
(b) Listening
(c) Reading
(d) Working

11. What does lithium force Jamison to give up?
(a) Partying
(b) Writing
(c) Reading
(d) Sport

12. What does Jamison like to put in her morning orange juice?
(a) Whiskey
(b) Lithium
(c) Brandy
(d) Vodka

13. In which English city does Jamison spend a few months in?
(a) Birmingham
(b) London
(c) York
(d) Liverpool

14. What job does the bright young man have who kills himself?
(a) Doctor
(b) Attourney
(c) Scientist
(d) Mechanic

15. What title is Jamison given at he end of this chapter?
(a) Professor
(b) Doctor
(c) Lady
(d) Saint

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison join in 1974?

2. What does Jamison remind her that she has been inducted into?

3. In what city was Andrews Air Force Base situated?

4. What is Jamison's brother researching the economic aspects of?

5. Which of the book's character's says off we go into the wild blue yonder?

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