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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 father try to determine the IQ scores of?

2. What is the name of the magazine the psychiatry resident is reading?

3. What does Jamison refuse to do regularly?

4. What does Jamison decide is her strongest interest?

5. What does Jamison join in 1974?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison feel about her disorder?

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

3. What happens to the plane that flies over the school yard in the first chapter?

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

5. How does Jamison manage to simplify her life?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Examine the following statement. Jamison focuses too much on the internal factors that cause mental illness and not enough on external factors. Using example from both the book and two other sources to support your argument.

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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