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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. Which poet does Jamison make 40 copies of?

2. Which member of Jamison's family is she particularly grateful to for saving her life?

3. What is Jamison reluctant to surrender to when she is manic?

4. What does Jamison find it difficult doing when she is on lithium?

5. In what room does Jamison sleep in to help with her feelings of nausea?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Jamison's sister's views on lithium?

2. What is an example of Jamison's manic behavior?

3. What does Jamison discover in chapter 6 when a bright young lawyer kills himself?

4. What does Jamison find attractive about David Laurie?

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

6. How does Jamison's disorder affect her home life?

7. How does Jamison mood swings affect her at college?

8. In what way did Jamison's time at college turn out to be a positive experience?

9. What happens to Jamison as she is walking through a garden campus in chapter 2?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the following options and discuss how Jamison's illness affected that particular area in her life.

1) Work.

2) Social life.

3) Intimate relationships.

4) Family.

Essay Topic 2

How much do you think Jamison changed positive representations of manic depression? What positive impact has Jamison's ideas had on society? Do you think Jamison's ideas have had any negative impacts?

Essay Topic 3

How important is it to the study of bi-polar or manic depression that the illness is addressed by a sufferer? Can someone who does not suffer from the illness ever truly understand its complexity?

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