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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. 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) Deep cave like blackness
(d) Standstill

2. What does Jamison say can often often accompany manic depression?
(a) Fame
(b) Guilt
(c) Creativity
(d) Loneliness

3. Which drug did Schou conduct clinical trials on?
(a) Lithium
(b) Halpol
(c) Seroxat
(d) Pervatine

4. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive illness?
(a) It sounds more dangerous
(b) People know what it is
(c) It has more positive connotations
(d) It is more descriptive

5. Who does Jamison recall a conversation with?
(a) Johann Johannsen
(b) Delmore Scwartz
(c) Johan Cryuff
(d) Mogens Schou

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where is Richard the chief of neuropsychiatry?

3. What does Jamison not think is such a good idea?

4. What illness does Richard research?

5. What is Jamison's title while at Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the letter Jamison received after giving a presentation in chapter 10?

2. What question does Jamison pose at the beginning of chapter 14?

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

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

5. How does Jamison end her memoir?

6. How could revealing her illness affect her personal life?

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

8. Why has Jamison never had children?

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

10. What does Jamison miss about her manic episodes

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