Good Books Midterm - 10/21/2026

In her Prologue to An Unquiet Mind, Kay Jamison quotes poet _____, saying, “Yet why not say what happened?”

Robert Lowell

Jamison writes that the major clinical problem in treating manic-depressive illness is not that there are not effective medications, but that patients _____.

refuse to take them

Kay Jamison is a professor at _____.

John Hopkins

Jamison starts suffering from bipolar when she is _____ years old.

17

_____ wrote about bipolar 500 years before the birth of Christ.

Hippocrates

Jamison’s father is a(n) _____.

meteorologist

Jamison witnesses a _____ as a child.

plane crash

Jamison visits St. _____ psychiatric hospital as a teenager.

Elizabeths

Jamison talks to a psychiatric patient who believes she has a _____ in her head.

pinball machine

When she’s 20, Jamison attends school in _____.

Scotland

After David’s death, Jamison takes a year-long sabbatical in _____ to study the mood disorders in eminent British artists and writers.

England

Jamison says that lowering her _____ level allowed not only clarity of thinking, but also a vividness and intensity of experience back into her life.

lithium

Jamison tries to commit suicide by taking a massive overdose of _____.

lithium

Jamison writes that “_____ can help, it can make the pain more tolerable, but, always, one is beholden to medication that may or may not always work and may or may not be bearable.”

love

Jamison’s brother is a Harvard-trained _____.

economist

Jamison’s husband works for _____.

NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health)

Jamison’s husband, Richard Wyatt, is a well-known _____ researcher.

schizophrenia

Jamison’s love David was a _____ in the army.

colonel

Jamison wrote a biography about the poet _____.

Robert Lowell

Jamison wrote a groundbreaking book about the link between manic depressive illness and creativity titled _____.

Touched with Fire

Jamison receives an angry letter from a stranger because of her use of the word _____ in announcement for a lecture.

madness

Jamison prefers the term _____ for her illness.

manic-depressive

Jim Watson, who won a Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of _____, is pursuing research into the genetics of bipolar disorder.

DNA

At a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Jamison meets Mogens Schou, a Danish psychiatrist who, more than anyone, is responsible for the introduction of _____ as a treatment for manic-depressive illness.

lithium

Jamison states that not having _____ is the single most intolerable regret of her life.

children

At the beginning of the graphic memoir Marbles, Ellen Forney is getting a(n) _____.

tattoo

Forney’s psychiatrist uses the _____ to list the symptoms of bipolar disorder for Forney.

DSM

When she is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Forney imagines holding a membership card to Club _____.

van Gogh

Forney’s psychiatrist suggests that she read _____.

An Unquiet Mind

One of Forney’s greatest fears is that taking lithium will somehow affect her _____.

art

Forney throws a _____ party for everyone who was 7 in ’75.

birthday

Forney’s mother diagnoses herself as _____.

cyclothymic

While depressed, Forney takes part in the Danskin _____.

triathlon

In the video we watched in class, Forney talks about the acronym SMEDMERTS.  Which of the following is NOT represented in that acronym?

Education

When she’s depressed, Forney rereads some of her favorite _____ books, because they feel safe.

childhood

In Darkness Visible, writer _____ says that artists and writers are “chroniclers of the human spirit” and often struggle with depression in their lives and their work.

William Styron

Forney writes that “it was really my _____ where I could face my emotional demons in a wholly personal way.”

sketchbook

Forney is _____ when she realizes that her depression is lifting.

showering

Forney gets invited to an annual comics festival in _____.

Portugal

Taking the medication Tegretol causes Forney to suffer from _____.

anorgasmia

Forney says that people with bipolar disorder may list their _____ proudly.

med histories

Lithium causes Forney to have severe _____ problems.

memory

Eventually, Forney realizes that her _____ interfered with the effectiveness of her medications.

pot smoking

Forney comes to the conclusion that _____ is good for her creativity.

stability

At the end of Marbles, Forney has a conversation with her _____.

younger self

The first graphic memoir to win the Pulitzer Prize was _____.

Maus

In his introduction to One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Faggen calls Randall P. McMurphy a _____.

trickster

The “black boys” at the beginning of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest call Bromden by the nickname Chief _____.

Broom

On the ward, the acronym BM stands for _____.

before medication

Nurse Ratched is a former _____ nurse.

army

_____ is the president of the Patients’ Council in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Harding

After sitting through his first Group Meeting, McMurphy describes it as a _____ party.

pecking

McMurphy makes a bet with the other patients that he can make Nurse Ratched lose her _____ within a week.

temper

When an aide won’t give him toothpaste, McMurphy uses ______ to brush his teeth.

soap

McMuprhy asks Nurse Ratched to turn down the _____ in the ward.

recorded music

McMurphy plays a three-day game of _____ with Cheswick, Martini, and Harding.

Monopoly

Nurse Ratched refuses to let the patients watch the _____ on the television.

World Series

McMurphy threatens to escape by lifting the cement _____ in the tub room and throwing it through the reinforced windows.

control panel

One night, Bromden wakes up and looks out the window and sees a _____ running towards the highway.

dog

Cheswick dies in the hospital’s _____.

pool

_____ grants McMurphy’s request for a pass to take a fishing trip with nine other patients, accompanied by two of his aunts.

Dr. Spivey

On the way back from the fishing trip, McMurphy has them drive by an old house where he lived as a child. In a tree outside the house, a _____ is hanging on a branch.

girl’s dress

As a way to turn the other patients against McMurphy, Nurse Ratched posts the patients’ _____ statements on the bulletin board.

financial

Nurse Ratchet sends McMurphy and Bromden to the _____ ward for fighting with the aides.

Disturbed

McMuprhy receives four _____ for his fight with the aides.

shock treatments

_____ opens the window to allow the prostitutes, Candy and Sandy, into the ward.

Turkle

_____ sleeps with the prostitute Candy.

Billy

Nurse Ratched threatens to tell Billy’s _____ what Billy has done during the party on the ward.

mother

McMurphy tries to _____ Nurse Ratched after Billy’s suicide.

strangle

For his attack on Nurse Ratched, McMurphy is given _____.

a lobotomy

The film adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was directed by _____.

Milos Forman

The film won all _____ of the major Academy Awards the year is was released.

five

One of the producers of the film was actor _____.

Michael Douglas

The film version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was released in the year _____.

1975

In the film adaptation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, McMurphy admires a picture
of a _____ on Dr. Spivey’s desk.

fish

In the film, McMurphy teaches Chief Bromden to play _____.

basketball

McMurphy steals _____ in the film to take his fellow patients fishing.

a bus

In the film, _____ steers the boat on the fishing trip.

Cheswick

The role of Nurse Ratched is played by _____.

Louise Fletcher

The role of Mr. Martini is played by _____.

Danny Devito