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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 say has made her life bearable?

2. What is Jamison sometimes tempted to do?

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

4. What does Jamison credit with stabilizing her moods?

5. What can her mania lead to?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is Jamison's view on the use of slang to describe people with mental illness?

7. Why is Jamison drawn to Wyatt?

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

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

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

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

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

1) Lithium.

2) Family.

3) Psychiatry

4) Marriage.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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