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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 does lithium force Jamison to give up?

2. What is the name of the magazine the psychiatry resident is reading?

3. Why does Jamison shoplift a blouse?

4. What does Jamison establish at her university in this chapter?

5. What does Jamison join in 1974?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Jamison's opinion of using medication to treat depressive disorders?

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

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

5. What happens to the plane that flies over the school yard in the first chapter?

6. What does Jamison find attractive about David Laurie?

7. How does Jamison feel about her disorder?

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

9. What does Jamison think of St. Andrews?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jamison occasionally examines the positive aspects of her illness. What positives can Jamison take from her illness? Would she have become the successful person she became without the illness?

Essay Topic 2

Describe how each of the following aided Jamison in her recovery against manic depression.

1) Lithium.

2) Family.

3) Psychiatry

4) Marriage.

Essay Topic 3

In 500 words, and using examples from the book, discuss the difference between Jamison's life when she was not in control of her illness to when you did gain control.

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