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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What university does Jamison enroll at?

2. In which city does David die?

3. What animal does Jamison want to buy?

4. What do the students eat in her zoology class?

5. What is the name of the hospital Jamison visits at 15?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison describe her early childhood years?

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

3. What happens to Jamison as she is walking through a garden campus in chapter 2?

4. Why does Jamison admire her older brother?

5. What does Jamison discover in chapter 6 when a bright young lawyer kills himself?

6. What reason does Jamison give for not getting on with her sister?

7. What indications are there that there is history of manic depression in Jamison's family?

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

9. What kind of work does Jamison decide to go into after graduate school?

10. What reason does Jamison give for connecting manic depressives with creativity?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jamison occasionally examines the positive aspects of her illness. What positives can Jamison take from her illness? Would she have become the successful person she became without the illness?

Essay Topic 2

What major events had a profound affect on Jamison's life and how did they change her? What does Jamison still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 3

In 500 words, and using examples from the book, discuss the difference between Jamison's life when she was not in control of her illness to when you did gain control.

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