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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Styron call the DSM?
(a) Very inaccurate guide.
(b) The psychiatrist's bible.
(c) A good manual.
(d) A guide to treatment.

2. What puzzles Styron about Camus's book, "The Fall"?
(a) It was a good narrative of what a depressed person experiences.
(b) It was written so brilliantly though Camus was depressed.
(c) The title didn't fit the story.
(d) That the lawyer/narrator would want to kill himself.

3. Sir Walter Scott and the Brontes linked what two illnesses interchangeably?
(a) Lukemia and depression.
(b) Cancer and depression.
(c) Influenza and depression.
(d) Melancholia and hypochondria.

4. When is depression at its worst?
(a) A blue state.
(b) Painful sorrow.
(c) Madness.
(d) Fake feelings of sadness.

5. Where does Styron spend his summers?
(a) In Paris.
(b) In Florida.
(c) On his farm in Connecticut.
(d) At Martha's Vineyard.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Stryon say it will be before he returns to Paris?

2. During one sleepless episode, what does Styron realize about his illness?

3. How old was Levi when he committed his suicide?

4. What did Styron's friend, Abbie Hoffman, do professionally?

5. Why would Jarrell's widow not want to admit he committed suicide?

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