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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What subject does Jamison's brother have a PHD in?
(a) Sport
(b) Film and Media
(c) Economics
(d) Psychology

3. What does Jamison like to write?
(a) Essays
(b) Short stories
(c) Poetry
(d) Novels

4. What did Jamison's mother teach her to do?
(a) Play golf
(b) Play cards
(c) Come off lithium
(d) Break her dark moods

5. What attraction is Jamison visiting when she drops her lithium tablets?
(a) Winchester Cathedral
(b) Canterbury Cathedral
(c) Wembley
(d) Ashridge

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

7. What does Jamison take to make sure she does not vomit?
(a) An anti-hemetic
(b) An anti-body
(c) An anti-emetic
(d) An anti-goo

8. What did Jamison feel when her brother was around?
(a) Talkative
(b) Beautiful
(c) Protected
(d) Estactic

9. Which of the following two words does Jamison use to describe her husband?
(a) Depressive and beautiful
(b) Horribly handsome
(c) Witty and loving
(d) Talented and kind

10. Which member of her family does Jamison say she adores?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her sister
(c) Her brother
(d) Her father

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

12. Which member of Jamison's family becomes her emotional bedrock?
(a) Her brother
(b) Her father
(c) Her sister
(d) Her mother

13. What does Jamison say she remembers college as?
(a) Unfortunate
(b) Intense suffering and confusion
(c) Time of her life
(d) Intellectually stimulating

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

15. What does Jamison decide to do before entertaining guests?
(a) Put on makeup
(b) Run around the house
(c) Shout at her husband
(d) Clean out the medicine cabinet

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Jamison try and reconcile with in this chapter?

2. What university did Jamison want to go to?

3. What poet does Jamison think of when she is walking through the university gardens?

4. What is Eros?

5. Who does Jamison find sitting at her office desk in this chapter?

(see the answer keys)

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