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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Jamison claim manic depressive illness is linked with?
(a) Happiness
(b) Academia
(c) Creativity
(d) IQ

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

5. What feeling is Jamison filled with during a manic episode?
(a) Intelligence and imaginaton
(b) Hate and darkness
(c) Self-confidence and well-being
(d) Love and happiness

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

7. What sea does Jamison say makes the weather harsh at St. Andrew's?
(a) The Dead sea
(b) The Irish sea
(c) The North Sea
(d) The Black sea

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

9. What poet does Jamison think of when she is walking through the university gardens?
(a) Mary Shelley
(b) Percy Shelley
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) Lord Tennyson

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

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

12. What does Jamison's father find it difficult to do when he is clinically depressed?
(a) Play ping pong
(b) Talk on the phone
(c) Go for walks
(d) Get out of bed

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

14. What does Jamison say takes hours to do when she is depressed?
(a) Washing her hair
(b) Waking up
(c) Making a cup of coffee
(d) Washing her feet

15. What happened to the pilot in the military jet?
(a) He lost his legs
(b) He lost an arm
(c) He broke his back
(d) He burned to death

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What can Jamison never repay back to her brother?

3. What nationality is Jamison's husband?

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

5. What does Jamison want to buy at the drug store?

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