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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison say could lead to death?
(a) Jumping from a building
(b) Bearing a child
(c) Raising her medication
(d) Lowering her medication

2. What would there not be enough of if psychiatric issues stopped people from getting clinical privileges?
(a) Nurses
(b) Children
(c) Qualified physicians
(d) Patients

3. What is Jamison sometimes tempted to do?
(a) Divorce
(b) Lower her dosage of lithium
(c) Commit suicide
(d) Have an affair

4. What does Jamison dread re-entering?
(a) Old friendships
(b) Family life
(c) Academic routine
(d) Her house

5. What does Jamison say her emotional and physical pain forced her to do?
(a) Crawl across the floor
(b) Take an overdose
(c) Pray for forgiveness
(d) Take heroin

6. Why did Jamison want to protect her family?
(a) They shy away from fame
(b) They all have weak hearts
(c) Manic depression is genetically based
(d) They did not know about her illness

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

8. Which of the following scientists are at the medical conference?
(a) David Bell
(b) Paul Ewood
(c) James Watson
(d) Lauren Smith

9. Why would Jamison want to lower her medication?
(a) To think clearly
(b) To relive the excitement of her moods
(c) To communicate better
(d) To lose weight

10. Which section of Washington DC does Richard live in?
(a) Alexandria
(b) Columbia Heights
(c) Georgetown
(d) Shaw

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

12. What did the woman think that Jamison's choice of words would do to sufferers of mental illness?
(a) Stigmitize them
(b) Romanticize them
(c) Arm them
(d) Free them

13. Why does Jamison not have children?
(a) Richard already has children
(b) She does not like children
(c) She is infertile
(d) Se does not wnat want them to inherit her illness

14. What is the name of the man Jamison meets in this chapter?
(a) Glynn Dorm
(b) Dick West
(c) Peter Davis
(d) Richard Wyatt

15. What does Jamison feel herself to be?
(a) A disciple of God
(b) A survivor
(c) A person
(d) Bad luck messenger

Short Answer Questions

1. Who poses the question to Jamison at the start of the chapter?

2. What does Jamison recall with longing?

3. Who does Jamison take with her on her long walks?

4. What does Jamison say is the one regret of her life?

5. What does Jamison question at the beginning of the chapter?

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