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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 state is John Hopkin's university in?
(a) Virginia
(b) Chicago
(c) California
(d) Maryland

2. What does Schou share with Jamison?
(a) A love for research
(b) A love for poetry
(c) A military family
(d) A family history of manic depression

3. What does Jamison say is the one regret of her life?
(a) Selling her horse
(b) Not telling her brother she loved him
(c) Not going to her father's funeral
(d) Not having children

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

5. Which of the following words or phrases does Jamison not use to describe her depressive episodes?
(a) Deaden her spirits
(b) Life-in-death blankness
(c) Standstill
(d) Deep cave like blackness

Short Answer Questions

1. Which drug did Schou conduct clinical trials on?

2. Who poses the question to Jamison at the start of the chapter?

3. What country does Mogens Schou come from?

4. In which city does Jamison take a sabbatical?

5. Which of the following gave Jamison great pleasure when she was in the midst of a manic mood?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamison miss about her manic episodes

2. What research is James Watson doing regarding the cause of mental illness?

3. What conversation does Jamison recall at the beginning of chapter 11?

4. What does Jamison say she now accepts about her illness?

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

6. How does Jamison benefit when her psychiatrist lowers her dosage level?

7. What is Jamison's view on the use of slang to describe people with mental illness?

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

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

10. What is Jamison wary of avoiding distinguishing the use of slang to describe mental illness in chapter 10?

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