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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what school is Jamison a psychiatrist?

3. What does Jamison say was filled with warmth, friendship and confidence?

4. What does Jamison take to make sure she does not vomit?

5. What country is David Laurie from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison feel about her disorder?

2. Why can Jamison not go to a Ivy League school?

3. How does David react when Jamison tell him about her illness?

4. What reason does Jamison give for connecting manic depressives with creativity?

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

6. What kind of work does Jamison do at the UCLA facility?

7. What is Jamison's sister's views on lithium?

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

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

10. Why does Jamison start reading children's books?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An Unquiet Mind was written in 1995. Choose one of the following options and discuss how psychiatry's ideas have developed since then.

1) The use of lithium.

2) Bi-polar as a genetically inherited illness.

3) Links between bi-polar and creativity.

Essay Topic 2

What events in Jamison's early life influenced her decision to study psychology? How different do the students think Jamison's life would been if she was from a less supportive family?

Essay Topic 3

Choose one of the people Jamison mentions in the book and discuss how they helped Jamison to recover. Could Jamison have survived without their support?

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