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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the award Styron receives?
(a) Prix Mondial Cino del Duca award.
(b) Newberry Award.
(c) Nobel Peace Prize.
(d) He didn't receive one, he was giving one.

2. What does Styron say depression is like?
(a) A sadness.
(b) An extra sleepy mood.
(c) Drowning or suffocation.
(d) Makes him angry at everyone.

3. Styron agrees with what literary guide's belief?
(a) Man's alienation from other men.
(b) Depression never causes suicide.
(c) All men suffer from deep depression.
(d) Depression always leads to suicide.

4. What characteristic of depression make Styron's memoir limited in benefit?
(a) He couldn't give good advice because the depression made him suicidal.
(b) He had to be hospitalized so couldn't finish the memoir in the manner he wanted.
(c) Its complexity made the memoir about only one person limited.
(d) He couldn't write so well because of the immobility of depression.

5. What pressing question does Styron have about the course of depression?
(a) What medicines are effective?
(b) Why do some who suffered commit suicide while others don't?
(c) Why doesn't the person just cheer up and get over it?
(d) Why would a person who has everything still be depressed?

Short Answer Questions

1. What bothers Styron so much about not being able to meet Camus?

2. What symptoms did Jarrell suffer from that caused Styron to believe in Jarrell's suicide?

3. What does Styron say would cause many depression-related suicides?

4. In Chapter 3, what event causes Styron to more fully explore the relationship between depression and suicide?

5. Why doesn't Styron recognize Camus's depression?

(see the answer key)

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