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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 kind of book does the Englishman give Jamison?

2. What did one psychiatrist tell Jamison never to have?

3. What city does Jamison go back to?

4. Which section of Washington DC does Richard live in?

5. What does the chairman already know about?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison cope on her return to Los Angeles?

2. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive to bi-polar?

3. What is Jamison wary of avoiding distinguishing the use of slang to describe mental illness in chapter 10?

4. What is Jamison's view on the use of slang to describe people with mental illness?

5. How could revealing her illness affect her personal life?

6. How does Jamison stop the temptation of reliving her manic episodes?

7. Why is Jamison encouraged by a presentation at the end of chapter 11?

8. How does Richard react when Jamison tells him about her mental illness?

9. How does Jamison react to David's death?

10. What does Jamison hope never to have to experience again concerning her manic episodes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How is Jamison's book important in changing people's perceptions of mental illness? How much does it help that she is a well established doctor? Is there a danger that people will connect such illnesses with high achievers?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Jamison use character and setting to express these themes?

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