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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. What does Jamison establish at her university in this chapter?

3. What does Jamison say takes hours to do when she is depressed?

4. What was Jamison doing when the military jet crashed?

5. What happened to the pilot in the military jet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Jamison feel about her disorder?

2. How does Jamison prove that manic depression is linked with greater creativity?

3. How does Jamison manage to simplify her life?

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

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

6. What does Jamison think of St. Andrews?

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

8. How does Jamison describe her early childhood years?

9. What does Jamison find attractive about David Laurie?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How important is it to the study of bi-polar or manic depression that the illness is addressed by a sufferer? Can someone who does not suffer from the illness ever truly understand its complexity?

Essay Topic 2

Jamison discusses the problems of using such words as bi-polar instead of manic depression. How important is it to have an appropriate name for an illness? What does the word manic depressive mean to you? Could the word bi-polar develop negative connotations in time?

Essay Topic 3

What events in Jamison's early life influenced her decision to study psychology? How different do the students think Jamison's life would been if she was from a less supportive family?

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