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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. In what city was Andrews Air Force Base situated?
(a) New York
(b) Washington D.C.
(c) Chicago
(d) Seattle

2. What nationality is Jamison's husband?
(a) German
(b) Japanese
(c) English
(d) French

3. What does Jamison decide to do before entertaining guests?
(a) Run around the house
(b) Shout at her husband
(c) Clean out the medicine cabinet
(d) Put on makeup

4. What poet does Jamison think of when she is walking through the university gardens?
(a) Mary Shelley
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Percy Shelley
(d) Lord Tennyson

5. At what school is Jamison a psychiatrist?
(a) Yale University
(b) Sir John Moores University
(c) John Hopkins University of Medicine
(d) Oxford University

Short Answer Questions

1. What does lithium force Jamison to give up?

2. What university did Jamison want to go to?

3. What Jamison say she needs to break her dark moods?

4. How do Jamison and Laurie stay in touch?

5. Which member of Jamison's family is she particularly grateful to for saving her life?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does David react when Jamison tell him about her illness?

2. How does Jamison's disorder affect her home life?

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

4. How does Jamison mood swings affect her at college?

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

6. Why can Jamison not go to a Ivy League school?

7. What happens to the plane that flies over the school yard in the first chapter?

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

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

10. Why does Jamison admire her older brother?

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