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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 is the correct medical diagnosis of Jamison's illness?

2. Which of the following word or phrase does Jamison use to describe her manic episodes?

3. What university does Jamison teach at?

4. What does Jamison say is the one regret of her life?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Jamison miss about her manic episodes

2. Why is Jamison drawn to Wyatt?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Jamison say she now accepts about her illness?

8. What is Jamison wary of avoiding distinguishing the use of slang to describe mental illness in chapter 10?

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

10. What does life in Oxford teach her?

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

How is Jamison's book important in changing people's perceptions of mental illness? How much does it help that she is a well established doctor? Is there a danger that people will connect such illnesses with high achievers?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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