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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison still grieve for?
(a) David
(b) Her cat
(c) Her childhood
(d) The intensity of her illness

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

3. Who does Jamison recall a conversation with?
(a) Delmore Scwartz
(b) Mogens Schou
(c) Johan Cryuff
(d) Johann Johannsen

4. What does Schou share with Jamison?
(a) A love for research
(b) A family history of manic depression
(c) A military family
(d) A love for poetry

5. What does Jamison decide to reduce at the end of this chapter?
(a) Her lithium dosage
(b) Her spending sprees
(c) Her leisure time
(d) Her working hours

6. What word Jamison used at a presentation made a woman angry?
(a) Quirkiness
(b) Bananas
(c) Madness
(d) Loopy

7. What does Jamison study in Oxford?
(a) Manic depression among genuises
(b) Manic depression among serial killers
(c) Manic depression and William Shakespeare
(d) Manic depression among British artists and writers

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

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

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

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

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

13. What kind of humor does Jamison share with the Englishman?
(a) Black
(b) Slapstick
(c) Surreal
(d) Ironic

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

15. What is Richard's title?
(a) Professor
(b) Doctor
(c) Lord
(d) Prince

Short Answer Questions

1. What can her mania lead to?

2. What does Jamison feel herself to be?

3. Which of the following gave Jamison great pleasure when she was in the midst of a manic mood?

4. Which English town is David buried in?

5. What does the chairman already know about?

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