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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 start to take regularly after David's death?

2. What country does Mogens Schou come from?

3. What does Jamison decide to reduce at the end of this chapter?

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

5. What is the correct medical diagnosis of Jamison's illness?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamison hope never to have to experience again concerning her manic episodes?

2. What question does Jamison pose at the beginning of chapter 14?

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

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

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

6. What does life in Oxford teach her?

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

8. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive to bi-polar?

9. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

10. How does Jamison end her memoir?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write a 500-word essay revolving around one of the following statements:

1) By connecting manic depression to creativity there is a danger Jamison could romanticize the illness.

2) Jamison's recovery from her illness occurred at a time when most people begin to develop emotional maturity.

3) Jamison is often too subjective and fails to address the fact medication may not benefit everybody.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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