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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 take to make sure she does not vomit?

2. What animal does Jamison want to buy?

3. Who does Jamison try and reconcile with in this chapter?

4. What does Jamison want to buy at the drug store?

5. What can Jamison never repay back to her brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamison find attractive about David Laurie?

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

3. What does Jamison think of St. Andrews?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does David help Jamison get over a depressive episode?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How much do you think Jamison changed positive representations of manic depression? What positive impact has Jamison's ideas had on society? Do you think Jamison's ideas have had any negative impacts?

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

Identify the main themes of the story. Why do you think these themes are so important to the story? How does Jamison use character and setting to express these themes?

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