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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 does Jamison say takes hours to do when she is depressed?

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

3. What does Jamison's father find it difficult to do when he is clinically depressed?

4. What is the only drug Jamison says can save her?

5. In which English city does Jamison spend a few months in?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jamison hear about David's death?

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

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

5. What happens to the plane that flies over the school yard in the first chapter?

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

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

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

9. What is Jamison's opinion of using medication to treat depressive disorders?

10. How does David help Jamison get over a depressive episode?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jamison occasionally examines the positive aspects of her illness. What positives can Jamison take from her illness? Would she have become the successful person she became without the illness?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

In 500 words, and using examples from the book, discuss the difference between Jamison's life when she was not in control of her illness to when you did gain control.

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