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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. Which of the following two words does Jamison use to describe her husband?
(a) Horribly handsome
(b) Witty and loving
(c) Talented and kind
(d) Depressive and beautiful

2. What does Jamison say was filled with warmth, friendship and confidence?
(a) Her adulthood
(b) Her childhood
(c) Her relationship with her teachers
(d) Her realationship with her father

3. What does Jamison refuse to do regularly?
(a) Go to work
(b) Take her lithium
(c) Read poetry
(d) Take Halpol

4. What does Jamison say takes hours to do when she is depressed?
(a) Making a cup of coffee
(b) Washing her feet
(c) Washing her hair
(d) Waking up

5. What was Jamison doing when the military jet crashed?
(a) Flying a kite
(b) Learning math
(c) Eating lunch
(d) Playing in the school yard

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison's faculty member believe Jamison to be in the middle of during a party?

2. What does Jamison decide to do before entertaining guests?

3. What university does Jamison receive a federal grant to attend?

4. What attraction is Jamison visiting when she drops her lithium tablets?

5. What does the air crash become a metaphor for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What indications are there that there is history of manic depression in Jamison's family?

2. What does Jamison discover in chapter 6 when a bright young lawyer kills himself?

3. In what way did Jamison's time at college turn out to be a positive experience?

4. How does Jamison feel about her disorder?

5. How does Jamison's brother save her life in chapter 5?

6. What is an example of Jamison's manic behavior?

7. How does the concert in chapter 6 benefit manic depressives?

8. What happens to Jamison as she is walking through a garden campus in chapter 2?

9. How does Jamison's first visit to a psychiatric hospital affect her?

10. How does Jamison prove that manic depression is linked with greater creativity?

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