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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 ponder in this chapter?

2. What does Jamison say always accompanied her descent into depression?

3. What is the name of the man Jamison meets in this chapter?

4. Who did Jamison want to protect by not talking about her illness?

5. What does Jamison say can often often accompany manic depression?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Summarize the book.

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

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

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

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

8. What does Jamison remember about her mood swings?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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