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

2. What did her illness destroy?

3. What does the chairman already know about?

4. What does Jamison dread re-entering?

5. What is Jamison's title while at Oxford?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Jamison drawn to Wyatt?

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

3. Summarize the book.

4. What does life in Oxford teach her?

5. What conversation does Jamison recall at the beginning of chapter 11?

6. Why has Jamison never had children?

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

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

9. How does Jamison cope on her return to Los Angeles?

10. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What major events had a profound affect on Jamison's life and how did they change her? What does Jamison still have to learn by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

Jamison occasionally examines the positive aspects of her illness. What positives can Jamison take from her illness? Would she have become the successful person she became without the illness?

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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