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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why can Jamison not afford spending sprees?
(a) She has to pay for college
(b) She needs to buy a car
(c) She is already in debt
(d) She is saving for a house

2. What does Jamison think about when her moods are very low?
(a) Africa
(b) Everyone hates her
(c) Images of death
(d) Murder

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

4. In what city was Andrews Air Force Base situated?
(a) New York
(b) Chicago
(c) Washington D.C.
(d) Seattle

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

6. What does Jamison remind her that she has been inducted into?
(a) A mostly female faculty club
(b) A mostly male faculty club
(c) A chauvinist's faculty club
(d) A manchild's faculty club

7. What is threatened when Jamison enters are depressive stage?
(a) Her marriage
(b) Her life
(c) Her family
(d) Her work

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

9. What does Jamison refuse to do regularly?
(a) Take Halpol
(b) Go to work
(c) Take her lithium
(d) Read poetry

10. What does lithium force Jamison to give up?
(a) Writing
(b) Partying
(c) Sport
(d) Reading

11. Who does Jamison inherit her manic depression from?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her father
(c) Her grandfather
(d) Her grandmother

12. Why does Jamison shoplift a blouse?
(a) For part of her research
(b) She wants to know if she can get away with it
(c) She is too impatient to wait
(d) She does not like the shop

13. What is a hospital candy striper?
(a) A student volunteer
(b) A homosexual
(c) Am army child
(d) A manic depressive patient

14. Who does Jamison delight in baiting?
(a) Her brother
(b) Oyster
(c) Pearl
(d) Her husband

15. What do David and Jamison meet for almost every day?
(a) Dinner
(b) Tea
(c) Handover
(d) Lunch

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison say was filled with warmth, friendship and confidence?

2. Which of the following words does Jamison use to describe her illness?

3. Which member of her family does Jamison say she adores?

4. What feeling is Jamison filled with during a manic episode?

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

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