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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison doubt she can remember to conduct?
(a) An academic conversation
(b) An orchestra
(c) A university lecture
(d) A psychiatric evaluation

2. Which of the following poets does Jamison quote?
(a) John Donne
(b) T.S. Elliott
(c) Ezra Pound
(d) Charles Bukowski

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

4. Which of the following words or phrases does Jamison not use to describe her depressive episodes?
(a) Life-in-death blankness
(b) Standstill
(c) Deep cave like blackness
(d) Deaden her spirits

5. Who does Jamison say will stop asking her questions if they know she suffers from manic depression?
(a) Colleagues
(b) Patients
(c) Medical residents
(d) Children

Short Answer Questions

1. What drug does Jamison compare the addictiveness of her manic states to?

2. Who poses the question to Jamison at the start of the chapter?

3. What does Jamison not think is such a good idea?

4. What does Jamison dread re-entering?

5. What does Jamison fill out an application for?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamison say has given her the greatest happiness?

2. How does another Englishman sweep Jamison off of her feet in chapter 8?

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

4. Why was Jamison reluctant to openly discuss her illness?

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

6. Why has Jamison never had children?

7. What does life in Oxford teach her?

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

9. Summarize the book.

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

(see the answer keys)

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