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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 nationality is Jamison's husband?

2. Which of the book's character's says off we go into the wild blue yonder?

3. In which city does David die?

4. What university does Jamison enroll at?

5. Which member of her family does Jamison say she adores?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is Jamison's opinion of using medication to treat depressive disorders?

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

4. What is an example of Jamison's manic behavior?

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

6. Describe the depressive extreme of Jamison's mood disorder.

7. How does Jamison manage to simplify her life?

8. How is Jamison's image of herself inaccurate?

9. How does David react when Jamison tell him about her illness?

10. How does the concert in chapter 6 benefit manic depressives?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Choose one of the people Jamison mentions in the book and discuss how they helped Jamison to recover. Could Jamison have survived without their support?

Essay Topic 2

Choose one of the following options and discuss how Jamison's illness affected that particular area in her life.

1) Work.

2) Social life.

3) Intimate relationships.

4) Family.

Essay Topic 3

An Unquiet Mind was written in 1995. Choose one of the following options and discuss how psychiatry's ideas have developed since then.

1) The use of lithium.

2) Bi-polar as a genetically inherited illness.

3) Links between bi-polar and creativity.

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