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

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

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

4. Which English town is David buried in?
(a) Leighton Buzzard
(b) Dorset
(c) Norfolk
(d) Luton

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jamison say emotional stability is a sign of?

2. What kind of humor does Jamison share with the Englishman?

3. What does Jamison feel herself to be?

4. What does Jamison start to take regularly after David's death?

5. Why does Jamison not have children?

Short Essay Questions

1. Summarize the book.

2. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive to bi-polar?

3. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

4. Why was Jamison reluctant to openly discuss her illness?

5. How does Jamison react to David's death?

6. How is the lower dosage of lithium benefiting Jamison in chapter 9?

7. Why has Jamison never had children?

8. Why is Jamison encouraged by a presentation at the end of chapter 11?

9. How does the department chairman react when Jamison tells him she suffers from a mental illness?

10. How does Jamison stop the temptation of reliving her manic episodes?

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