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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 does Jamison's faculty member believe Jamison to be in the middle of during a party?

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

3. What is threatened when Jamison enters are depressive stage?

4. What does Jamison refuse to do regularly?

5. Who does David invite to dinner in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Jamison describe her early childhood years?

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

4. How does Jamison's brother save her life in chapter 5?

5. What is Jamison's sister's views on lithium?

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

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

8. Why does Jamison start reading children's books?

9. Describe the manic extreme of Jamison's mood disorder.

10. How does Jamison hear about David's death?

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

Describe how each of the following aided Jamison in her recovery against manic depression.

1) Lithium.

2) Family.

3) Psychiatry

4) Marriage.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss differences between the novel and autobiography formats. What are the main elements of a novel? What are the main elements of an autobiography? What can novelists express that an autobiographer cannot? How can autobiographies keep to the facts while still maintaining a level of entertainment?

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