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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 colorful expressions does Jamison use in this chapter?

2. Who does Jamison say will stop asking her questions if they know she suffers from manic depression?

3. Which English town is David buried in?

4. What drug does Jamison compare the addictiveness of her manic states to?

5. What country does Mogens Schou come from?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jamison react to David's death?

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

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

6. Why is Jamison drawn to Wyatt?

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

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

9. Why has Jamison never had children?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe how each of the following aided Jamison in her recovery against manic depression.

1) Lithium.

2) Family.

3) Psychiatry

4) Marriage.

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

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.

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