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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jamison think she would feel when she opened up about her illness?
(a) Stupid
(b) Loved
(c) Embarrassment
(d) Relief

2. What type of flowers does Jamison place at David's grave?
(a) Forget-me-nots
(b) Roses
(c) Daisies
(d) Violets

3. What does Jamison say she is grateful for?
(a) Her intelligence
(b) Her friends
(c) A more balanced life
(d) Her creativity

4. What is the correct medical diagnosis of Jamison's illness?
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Bi-polar
(c) Manic depression
(d) Clinical depression

5. What is Richard's title?
(a) Prince
(b) Professor
(c) Lord
(d) Doctor

6. What does Jamison study in Oxford?
(a) Manic depression among genuises
(b) Manic depression among serial killers
(c) Manic depression and William Shakespeare
(d) Manic depression among British artists and writers

7. What would Jamison want to be available if she chose to be manic depressive?
(a) Hospitals
(b) Love
(c) Lithium
(d) Psychiatry

8. In which city does Jamison take a sabbatical?
(a) Bombay
(b) Oxford
(c) London
(d) Chicago

9. Which of the following members of Jamison's family is the only one she gives a name to?
(a) None of them
(b) Her brother
(c) Her cousin
(d) Her sister

10. What does Jamison doubt she can remember to conduct?
(a) An orchestra
(b) A psychiatric evaluation
(c) A university lecture
(d) An academic conversation

11. What does Jamison say always accompanied her descent into depression?
(a) A headache
(b) Hate
(c) Love
(d) Fear

12. What did the woman think that Jamison's choice of words would do to sufferers of mental illness?
(a) Romanticize them
(b) Stigmitize them
(c) Arm them
(d) Free them

13. What does Jamison not want to rule out when talking about mental illness?
(a) Informality
(b) Slang
(c) Humor
(d) Seriousness

14. Which English town is David buried in?
(a) Leighton Buzzard
(b) Dorset
(c) Norfolk
(d) Luton

15. What does Jamison say could lead to death?
(a) Lowering her medication
(b) Bearing a child
(c) Raising her medication
(d) Jumping from a building

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does the Englishman write in the book?

2. Which of the following sometimes triggers a memory of earlier days as a manic depressive?

3. What does Jamison say has made her life bearable?

4. What does Jamison say is part of who she is?

5. What state is John Hopkin's university in?

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