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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 study in Oxford?

2. Why does Jamison prefer the term manic depressive illness?

3. What is Jamison sometimes tempted to do?

4. What did one psychiatrist tell Jamison never to have?

5. Who poses the question to Jamison at the start of the chapter?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jamison end her memoir?

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

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

6. How could revealing her illness affect her personal life?

7. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

8. Why is Jamison drawn to Wyatt?

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

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

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

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

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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