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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. Which of the following poets does Jamison quote?

2. What does Jamison say could lead to death?

3. Who does Jamison invite to lunch?

4. What does Jamison ponder in this chapter?

5. What does Jamison still grieve for?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the letter Jamison received after giving a presentation in chapter 10?

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

4. How does Jamison stop the temptation of reliving her manic episodes?

5. How does Jamison end her memoir?

6. What is Jamison wary of avoiding distinguishing the use of slang to describe mental illness in chapter 10?

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

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

9. Summarize the book.

10. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Choose one of the people Jamison mentions in the book and discuss how they helped Jamison to recover. Could Jamison have survived without their support?

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