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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 establish at her university in this chapter?
(a) The UCLA Affective Disorders Clinic
(b) The Neuropsychiatry Institute
(c) The UCLA Manic Depressive Clinic
(d) The UCLA Art and Mental Illness Clinic

2. What does the air crash become a metaphor for?
(a) Jamison's parent's divorce
(b) The Iraq war
(c) Jamison's marriages
(d) Jamison's manic-depression

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

4. What is threatened when Jamison enters are depressive stage?
(a) Her family
(b) Her work
(c) Her marriage
(d) Her life

5. Who does Jamison delight in baiting?
(a) Oyster
(b) Her brother
(c) Pearl
(d) Her husband

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What kind of glove did Jamison used to wear as a society girl in Washington DC?

4. In what country is St. Andrew's located?

5. What does Jamison find too emotional?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison hear about David's death?

2. What does Jamison think of St. Andrews?

3. How does David help Jamison get over a depressive episode?

4. How does Jamison manage to simplify her life?

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

6. In what way did Jamison's time at college turn out to be a positive experience?

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

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

9. How does Jamison's first visit to a psychiatric hospital affect her?

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

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