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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

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

3. What does Jamison say has made her life bearable?
(a) Work
(b) Religion
(c) Love
(d) Human contact

4. What does Jamison say emotional stability is a sign of?
(a) Love
(b) Hard work
(c) Health
(d) Boredom

5. Who does Jamison invite to lunch?
(a) The department chairman
(b) Her brother
(c) John Hopkins
(d) Her sister

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

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

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

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

10. What does Jamison say can often often accompany manic depression?
(a) Fame
(b) Guilt
(c) Loneliness
(d) Creativity

11. Where is Richard the chief of neuropsychiatry?
(a) National Institute of Mental Health
(b) Great Ormond Hospital
(c) Los Angeles City Hospital
(d) National Institute of Brain Surgery

12. Which of the following gave Jamison great pleasure when she was in the midst of a manic mood?
(a) Reading
(b) Animals
(c) Sex
(d) Chocolate

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following words or phrases does Jamison not use to describe her depressive episodes?

2. Which section of Washington DC does Richard live in?

3. What would there not be enough of if psychiatric issues stopped people from getting clinical privileges?

4. Who does Jamison say will stop asking her questions if they know she suffers from manic depression?

5. What does the lower dose of lithium allow Jamison to do?

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