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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 can Jamison do now she is taking less lithium?

2. Which of the following members of Jamison's family is the only one she gives a name to?

3. What does Jamison not want to rule out when talking about mental illness?

4. Why did Jamison want to protect her family?

5. What did her illness destroy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does another Englishman sweep Jamison off of her feet in chapter 8?

2. Summarize the book.

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

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

5. How does Jamison end her memoir?

6. How does Richard react when Jamison tells him about her mental illness?

7. Why was Jamison reluctant to openly discuss her illness?

8. Why is Jamison drawn to Wyatt?

9. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

10. What does Jamison say she now accepts about her illness?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An Unquiet Mind was written in 1995. Choose one of the following options and discuss how psychiatry's ideas have developed since then.

1) The use of lithium.

2) Bi-polar as a genetically inherited illness.

3) Links between bi-polar and creativity.

Essay Topic 2

Using examples from the book discuss the reasons why manic depression is connected with creativity.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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