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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 is part of who she is?
(a) Her children
(b) Her husband
(c) Her violent mood swings
(d) Her family

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

3. What question does Jamison pose at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Whether she would choose to have manic depression
(b) Whether she would choose to live in America
(c) Whether she would choose to have children
(d) Whether she would choose to be born

4. What did Jamison think she would feel when she opened up about her illness?
(a) Loved
(b) Relief
(c) Stupid
(d) Embarrassment

5. Which of the following poets does Jamison quote?
(a) Ezra Pound
(b) Charles Bukowski
(c) John Donne
(d) T.S. Elliott

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

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

8. Which of the following word or phrase does Jamison use to describe her manic episodes?
(a) Lithe
(b) More than just rock and roll
(c) Great gulps of life
(d) Insightful

9. Which of the following colorful expressions does Jamison use in this chapter?
(a) Barmy
(b) Gone around the bend
(c) Nut job
(d) Mad as a hatter

10. What message does the Englishman write in the book?
(a) Forget me and you can forget life
(b) Marry me
(c) Thank you for a lovely weekend. They tell me it rained.
(d) Thank you for everything.

11. What did her illness destroy?
(a) All pleasure and relationships
(b) Her credit status
(c) Her furniture
(d) Her co-ordination

12. In which city does Richard live?
(a) Washington D.C.
(b) Los Angeles
(c) New York
(d) Seattle

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

14. What did James Watson discover?
(a) Halpol
(b) Lithium
(c) FDA triple bic
(d) DNA double helix

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison still grieve for?

2. What does Jamison doubt she can remember to conduct?

3. What is Jamison sometimes tempted to do?

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

5. What does Jamison start to take regularly after David's death?

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