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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison's father try to determine the IQ scores of?
(a) Historical figures
(b) IBM computers
(c) The working class
(d) Privately schooled adults

2. Why does Jamison decline Laurie's invitation to go to dinner?
(a) She is too busy
(b) She is still married
(c) She does not find him attractive
(d) He won't let her pay

3. In which English city does Jamison spend a few months in?
(a) Liverpool
(b) London
(c) Birmingham
(d) York

4. Who insists Jamison has to stay on lithium?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her psychiatrist
(c) Her brother
(d) Her boss

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

6. What does Jamison decide is her strongest interest?
(a) Life
(b) Psychology
(c) Poetry
(d) Sport

7. Which of the following words does Jamison use to describe her illness?
(a) Naughty
(b) Fulfilling
(c) Seductive
(d) Ugly

8. What job does the bright young man have who kills himself?
(a) Doctor
(b) Scientist
(c) Mechanic
(d) Attourney

9. What kind of glove did Jamison used to wear as a society girl in Washington DC?
(a) Length white gloves
(b) Fingerless gloves
(c) Ski gloves
(d) Woollen gloves

10. Which American poet does Jamison reference in this chapter?
(a) Erza Pound
(b) T.S Elliot
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Delmore Schwartz

11. What does Jamison find too emotional?
(a) Paintings
(b) Poetry
(c) Her marriage
(d) Music

12. What corporation did Jamison's father work at?
(a) Rand
(b) Levis
(c) Xerox
(d) Microsoft

13. Which of the following composers does the orchestra not play?
(a) Schumann
(b) Berlioz
(c) Mozart
(d) Wolf

14. What does the air crash become a metaphor for?
(a) The Iraq war
(b) Jamison's parent's divorce
(c) Jamison's manic-depression
(d) Jamison's marriages

15. What attraction is Jamison visiting when she drops her lithium tablets?
(a) Canterbury Cathedral
(b) Ashridge
(c) Winchester Cathedral
(d) Wembley

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which Welsh poet does Jamison reference in this chapter?

3. Which of the book's character's says off we go into the wild blue yonder?

4. What does Jamison think about when her moods are very low?

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

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