2. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive illness?
(a) People know what it is
(b) It has more positive connotations
(c) It sounds more dangerous
(d) It is more descriptive

3. What is Jamison's title while at Oxford?
(a) Senior research fellow
(b) Junior research fellow
(c) Senior psychiatrist
(d) The American fellow

4. What does Jamison not think is such a good idea?
(a) Mentally ill people having children
(b) The use of slang to describe mental illness
(c) Political and medical correctness
(d) Two mentally ill people getting married

5. What does Jamison say can often often accompany manic depression?
(a) Fame
(b) Loneliness
(c) Creativity
(d) Guilt

6. Who does Jamison take with her on her long walks?
(a) Richard Wyatt
(b) Her cat
(c) Her son
(d) Her dog

7. Where does Jamison say most scientists now believe manic depressive illness comes from?
(a) Monkeys
(b) The Family
(c) Isolation
(d) Too much television

8. What does Jamison recall with longing?
(a) Her first sexual experience
(b) Her first marriage
(c) Her childhood
(d) Her manic episodes

9. Where is Richard the chief of neuropsychiatry?
(a) National Institute of Brain Surgery
(b) Los Angeles City Hospital
(c) National Institute of Mental Health
(d) Great Ormond Hospital

10. Which of the following sometimes triggers a memory of earlier days as a manic depressive?
(a) A sound
(b) A poem
(c) Thunder
(d) A red light

11. What does Jamison start to take regularly after David's death?
(a) LSD
(b) Morphine
(c) Halpol
(d) Lithium

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

13. Why does Jamison not have children?
(a) She does not like children
(b) She is infertile
(c) Se does not wnat want them to inherit her illness
(d) Richard already has children

14. How does Jamison describe Richard?
(a) Cute as hell
(b) Manically funny
(c) Low key and down to earth
(d) Loving, but pompous

15. What question does Jamison pose at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Whether she would choose to live in America
(b) Whether she would choose to be born
(c) Whether she would choose to have children
(d) Whether she would choose to have manic depression