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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 do the students eat in her zoology class?

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

3. Which European city does Jamison's brother call her from?

4. What does Jamison remind her that she has been inducted into?

5. What does Jamison call the chauvinist professor?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison feel about her disorder?

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

3. What does Jamison find attractive about David Laurie?

4. How is Jamison's image of herself inaccurate?

5. How does Jamison hear about David's death?

6. Describe the depressive extreme of Jamison's mood disorder.

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

8. How does Jamison describe her early childhood years?

9. What kind of work does Jamison decide to go into after graduate school?

10. How does Jamison's disorder affect her home life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a 500-word essay revolving around one of the following statements:

1) By connecting manic depression to creativity there is a danger Jamison could romanticize the illness.

2) Jamison's recovery from her illness occurred at a time when most people begin to develop emotional maturity.

3) Jamison is often too subjective and fails to address the fact medication may not benefit everybody.

Essay Topic 2

How much do you think Jamison changed positive representations of manic depression? What positive impact has Jamison's ideas had on society? Do you think Jamison's ideas have had any negative impacts?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the following statement. Jamison focuses too much on the internal factors that cause mental illness and not enough on external factors. Using example from both the book and two other sources to support your argument.

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