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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jamison find it difficult doing when she is on lithium?
(a) Eating
(b) Listening
(c) Reading
(d) Working

2. What does Jamison claim manic depressive illness is linked with?
(a) Happiness
(b) Academia
(c) IQ
(d) Creativity

3. What does Jamison find too emotional?
(a) Her marriage
(b) Music
(c) Poetry
(d) Paintings

4. Which poet does Jamison make 40 copies of?
(a) Percy Shelley
(b) Lord Tennyson
(c) Edna St. Vincent Millay
(d) Walt Whitman

5. What kind of snake does Jamison want to protect herself against?
(a) An adder
(b) A brown snake
(c) A rattle snake
(d) A grass snake

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of her family does Jamison say she adores?

2. Who does Jamison delight in baiting?

3. What happened to the pilot in the military jet?

4. What sea does Jamison say makes the weather harsh at St. Andrew's?

5. Which Welsh poet does Jamison reference in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison describe her early childhood years?

2. What kind of work does Jamison do at the UCLA facility?

3. Describe the manic extreme of Jamison's mood disorder.

4. What does Jamison find attractive about David Laurie?

5. What happens to Jamison as she is walking through a garden campus in chapter 2?

6. How does Jamison prove that manic depression is linked with greater creativity?

7. How does Jamison's brother save her life in chapter 5?

8. Why does Jamison admire her older brother?

9. Why does Jamison start reading children's books?

10. What is Jamison's opinion of using medication to treat depressive disorders?

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