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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison establish at her university in this chapter?
(a) The UCLA Art and Mental Illness Clinic
(b) The UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic
(c) The Neuropsychiatry Institute
(d) The UCLA Manic Depressive Clinic

2. What does Jamison decide she needs to be patient with?
(a) Her work
(b) Her family
(c) The lithium
(d) Herself

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

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

5. What country does Jamison go to in this chapter?
(a) Tibet
(b) England
(c) Russia
(d) Canada

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

7. What does Jamison find it difficult doing when she is on lithium?
(a) Listening
(b) Eating
(c) Reading
(d) Working

8. What kind of snake does Jamison want to protect herself against?
(a) A rattle snake
(b) A brown snake
(c) A grass snake
(d) An adder

9. What university does Jamison receive a federal grant to attend?
(a) Oxford University
(b) St. Andrew's University
(c) New York
(d) Yale

10. Which poet does Jamison make 40 copies of?
(a) Lord Tennyson
(b) Percy Shelley
(c) Walt Whitman
(d) Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

12. What is Jamison reluctant to surrender to when she is manic?
(a) Her brother
(b) The government
(c) Stability
(d) Drugs

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

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

15. Which member of Jamison's family is she particularly grateful to for saving her life?
(a) Her father
(b) Her brother
(c) Her mother
(d) Her sister

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Jamison shoplift a blouse?

2. Which member of Jamison's family becomes her emotional bedrock?

3. What kind of glove did Jamison used to wear as a society girl in Washington DC?

4. What does the air crash become a metaphor for?

5. In which city does David die?

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