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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Jamison recall a conversation with?
(a) Mogens Schou
(b) Johan Cryuff
(c) Johann Johannsen
(d) Delmore Scwartz

2. What have Jamison's exalted moods taught her?
(a) Always keep looking for better things
(b) Always put your health first
(c) Family is the most important part of her life
(d) Never to become jaded to life

3. Which of the following does Jamison state will contribute to the change in the way people perceive mental illness?
(a) Television
(b) The government
(c) Family members
(d) Cinema

4. What does Jamison still grieve for?
(a) The intensity of her illness
(b) Her cat
(c) Her childhood
(d) David

5. What illness does Richard research?
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Cancer
(c) Manic depression
(d) Clinical depression

6. What kind of humor does Jamison share with the Englishman?
(a) Surreal
(b) Ironic
(c) Black
(d) Slapstick

7. What does Jamison question at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Her love for her father
(b) The severity of her illness
(c) Her sexuality
(d) Her reluctance to discuss her illness

8. What is the name of the man Jamison meets in this chapter?
(a) Dick West
(b) Glynn Dorm
(c) Peter Davis
(d) Richard Wyatt

9. Where does Jamison say most scientists now believe manic depressive illness comes from?
(a) Too much television
(b) Isolation
(c) Monkeys
(d) The Family

10. What does Jamison ponder in this chapter?
(a) Japanese food
(b) The influence of food on mental stability
(c) Marriage
(d) The influence of language

11. What does Jamison say is the one regret of her life?
(a) Not telling her brother she loved him
(b) Selling her horse
(c) Not going to her father's funeral
(d) Not having children

12. Which of the following colorful expressions does Jamison use in this chapter?
(a) Nut job
(b) Gone around the bend
(c) Mad as a hatter
(d) Barmy

13. Who poses the question to Jamison at the start of the chapter?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her psychiatrist
(c) Herself
(d) Her brother

14. What question does Jamison pose at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Whether she would choose to live in America
(b) Whether she would choose to be born
(c) Whether she would choose to have manic depression
(d) Whether she would choose to have children

15. Which drug did Schou conduct clinical trials on?
(a) Lithium
(b) Halpol
(c) Seroxat
(d) Pervatine

Short Answer Questions

1. What can Jamison do now she is taking less lithium?

2. What does Jamison doubt she can remember to conduct?

3. What country does Mogens Schou come from?

4. What does Jamison feel herself to be?

5. What does Jamison recall with longing?

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