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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of the following words does Jamison use to describe her illness?
(a) Naughty
(b) Seductive
(c) Fulfilling
(d) Ugly

3. Which of the following drugs is Jamison not researching?
(a) Marijuana
(b) LSD
(c) Halpol
(d) Heroin

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

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

6. Who does Jamison try and reconcile with in this chapter?
(a) Her son
(b) Her husband
(c) Her father
(d) David Laurie

7. Who does Jamison find sitting at her office desk in this chapter?
(a) Her sister
(b) David Laurie
(c) Philip Brown
(d) Her brother

8. What kind of snake does Jamison want to protect herself against?
(a) A grass snake
(b) A rattle snake
(c) A brown snake
(d) An adder

9. What kind of glove did Jamison used to wear as a society girl in Washington DC?
(a) Woollen gloves
(b) Ski gloves
(c) Length white gloves
(d) Fingerless gloves

10. What country does Jamison go to in this chapter?
(a) Tibet
(b) Canada
(c) England
(d) Russia

11. Who does David invite to dinner in this chapter?
(a) His mother
(b) KGB
(c) British military officers
(d) Czech professors

12. What does Jamison join in 1974?
(a) The UCLA faculty
(b) The bi-polar society
(c) The Yale Faculty
(d) The Tennyson society

13. Which of the book's character's says off we go into the wild blue yonder?
(a) Jamison's brother
(b) Jamison's father
(c) Jamison's sister
(d) Jamison's mother

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

15. Who insists Jamison has to stay on lithium?
(a) Her brother
(b) Her psychiatrist
(c) Her boss
(d) Her husband

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does the bright young man have who kills himself?

2. What country has David been assigned to?

3. What corporation did Jamison's father work at?

4. Which poet does Jamison make 40 copies of?

5. What does Jamison want to buy at the drug store?

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