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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison doubt she can remember to conduct?
(a) An orchestra
(b) A psychiatric evaluation
(c) An academic conversation
(d) A university lecture

2. What can her mania lead to?
(a) Insanity
(b) Fun
(c) Euphoria
(d) Bullying

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

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

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

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

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

8. How does Jamison describe Richard?
(a) Loving, but pompous
(b) Low key and down to earth
(c) Cute as hell
(d) Manically funny

9. What have Jamison's exalted moods taught her?
(a) Never to become jaded to life
(b) Always keep looking for better things
(c) Always put your health first
(d) Family is the most important part of her life

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

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

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

13. Which drug did Schou conduct clinical trials on?
(a) Seroxat
(b) Halpol
(c) Lithium
(d) Pervatine

14. What state is John Hopkin's university in?
(a) California
(b) Virginia
(c) Maryland
(d) Chicago

15. What is the nationality of the man Jamison meets at a dinner party?
(a) South African
(b) English
(c) American
(d) Scottish

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Jamison not want to rule out when talking about mental illness?

3. In which city does Jamison take a sabbatical?

4. What does Jamison say can often often accompany manic depression?

5. What type of flowers does Jamison place at David's grave?

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