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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Jamison say always accompanied her descent into depression?
(a) A headache
(b) Fear
(c) Love
(d) Hate

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

4. What does Jamison say she is grateful for?
(a) Her intelligence
(b) Her creativity
(c) Her friends
(d) A more balanced life

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

6. What does Jamison fill out an application for?
(a) University
(b) A new job
(c) Clinical privileges
(d) Release from hospital

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

8. What does Jamison want to discuss with the chairmen?
(a) Her illness
(b) A colleague
(c) A radio show
(d) A payrise

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

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

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

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

13. What did one psychiatrist tell Jamison never to have?
(a) A lobotomy
(b) A husband
(c) Children
(d) Pets

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

15. What does Jamison question at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Her love for her father
(b) Her sexuality
(c) The severity of her illness
(d) Her reluctance to discuss her illness

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison dread re-entering?

2. What state is John Hopkin's university in?

3. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive illness?

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

5. What does Jamison say has made her life bearable?

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