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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 still grieve for?

2. What does Jamison fill out an application for?

3. Who does Jamison take with her on her long walks?

4. In which city does Jamison take a sabbatical?

5. What would there not be enough of if psychiatric issues stopped people from getting clinical privileges?

Short Essay Questions

1. What research is James Watson doing regarding the cause of mental illness?

2. Why has Jamison never had children?

3. Why is Jamison encouraged by a presentation at the end of chapter 11?

4. How does Jamison benefit when her psychiatrist lowers her dosage level?

5. What is Jamison's view on the use of slang to describe people with mental illness?

6. How is the lower dosage of lithium benefiting Jamison in chapter 9?

7. How does the department chairman react when Jamison tells him she suffers from a mental illness?

8. What does Jamison say has given her the greatest happiness?

9. What conversation does Jamison recall at the beginning of chapter 11?

10. How does Jamison end her memoir?

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

Look at the structure of the book.

1) Discuss elements of the narrative structure; Exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's ideas?

2) Examine the way Jamison uses other people in the story to express her ideas.

Essay Topic 3

Examine Jamison's writing style. How would you describe her prose style? What kind of vocabulary does she use? Does she use any specific writing techniques? What meaning does Jamison's style give to her story?

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