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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What can Jamison do now she is taking less lithium?
(a) Read for pleasure
(b) Fall in love
(c) Eat beans
(d) Laugh

4. What country does Mogens Schou come from?
(a) Denmark
(b) Norway
(c) Iceland
(d) Sweden

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

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

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

8. Why did Jamison want to protect her family?
(a) They shy away from fame
(b) They all have weak hearts
(c) Manic depression is genetically based
(d) They did not know about her illness

9. Who does Jamison take with her on her long walks?
(a) Her son
(b) Richard Wyatt
(c) Her cat
(d) Her dog

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

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

12. What university does Jamison teach at?
(a) Yale
(b) Oxford
(c) Chicago
(d) John Hopkins

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison want to discuss with the chairmen?

2. What is Richard's title?

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

4. What does Jamison question at the beginning of the chapter?

5. What did her illness destroy?

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