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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Jamison decline Laurie's invitation to go to dinner?
(a) She does not find him attractive
(b) She is too busy
(c) She is still married
(d) He won't let her pay

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

3. In which English city does Jamison spend a few months in?
(a) Liverpool
(b) York
(c) London
(d) Birmingham

4. Which Welsh poet does Jamison reference in this chapter?
(a) Tom Jones
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) Rhys Jones
(d) Ralph Steadman

5. What Jamison say she needs to break her dark moods?
(a) Gentle discipline
(b) Food
(c) Love
(d) Firm discipline

6. What is Eros?
(a) The life force
(b) The food source
(c) The death force
(d) The water source

7. What nationality is Jamison's husband?
(a) Japanese
(b) English
(c) German
(d) French

8. What does Jamison say happens after several years of taking lithium?
(a) She loses her creative spark
(b) Her moods begin to level out
(c) She becomes immune
(d) She puts on weight

9. What does Jamison like to put in her morning orange juice?
(a) Vodka
(b) Brandy
(c) Lithium
(d) Whiskey

10. What is the only drug Jamison says can save her?
(a) Amphetimenes
(b) Morphine
(c) Halpol
(d) Lithium

11. What country is David Laurie from?
(a) England
(b) Scotland
(c) Jamaica
(d) Canada

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

13. What do the students eat in her zoology class?
(a) Oysters
(b) Crabs
(c) Lobsters
(d) Snails

14. What does Jamison join in 1974?
(a) The Yale Faculty
(b) The UCLA faculty
(c) The bi-polar society
(d) The Tennyson society

15. What does the air crash become a metaphor for?
(a) Jamison's manic-depression
(b) Jamison's marriages
(c) Jamison's parent's divorce
(d) The Iraq war

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did Jamison feel when her brother was around?

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

5. What title is Jamison given at he end of this chapter?

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