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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison recall with longing?
(a) Her manic episodes
(b) Her first marriage
(c) Her first sexual experience
(d) Her childhood

2. What does Jamison credit with stabilizing her moods?
(a) Work
(b) Lithium
(c) Marriage
(d) Oxford

3. What university does Jamison teach at?
(a) Chicago
(b) John Hopkins
(c) Yale
(d) Oxford

4. Which of the following sometimes triggers a memory of earlier days as a manic depressive?
(a) A sound
(b) Thunder
(c) A poem
(d) A red light

5. What would Jamison want to be available if she chose to be manic depressive?
(a) Love
(b) Lithium
(c) Hospitals
(d) Psychiatry

6. What notable award has James Watson won?
(a) The Booker Prize
(b) The Hugo Award
(c) The Mercury Award
(d) The Nobel Prize

7. What city does Jamison go back to?
(a) Chicago
(b) Los Angeles
(c) Seattle
(d) Washington

8. What drug does Jamison compare the addictiveness of her manic states to?
(a) Heroin
(b) Love
(c) Alcohol
(d) Cocaine

9. What does the chairman already know about?
(a) Jamison's illness
(b) Jamison's love for him
(c) Jamison's past indiscretions
(d) Jamison's IQ

10. What kind of book does the Englishman give Jamison?
(a) A book on ironic humor
(b) A book on medicine
(c) A book on love
(d) A book on manic depression

11. What is the correct medical diagnosis of Jamison's illness?
(a) Schizophrenia
(b) Manic depression
(c) Bi-polar
(d) Clinical depression

12. What illness does Richard research?
(a) Manic depression
(b) Clinical depression
(c) Cancer
(d) Schizophrenia

13. Which of the following members of Jamison's family is the only one she gives a name to?
(a) None of them
(b) Her sister
(c) Her cousin
(d) Her brother

14. What does Jamison say is the one regret of her life?
(a) Not going to her father's funeral
(b) Not having children
(c) Not telling her brother she loved him
(d) Selling her horse

15. In which city does Jamison take a sabbatical?
(a) Chicago
(b) Bombay
(c) London
(d) Oxford

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison still grieve for?

2. What word Jamison used at a presentation made a woman angry?

3. What message does the Englishman write in the book?

4. Which of the following word or phrase does Jamison use to describe her manic episodes?

5. What does Jamison say she is grateful for?

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