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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Styron's companions notice about him?
(a) That he appears not to feel well.
(b) He is angry at his friends.
(c) He is disoriented.
(d) He is very sleepy.

2. What did Styron do for Hoffman regarding a political demonstration led by Hoffman?
(a) Referred him to a psychiatrist in New York.
(b) Introduced him to Lady del Duco in hopes of winning the award in the future.
(c) Testified for him at a trial in Chicago.
(d) He never really met Hoffman, so didn't do anything for him.

3. What does Styron think after his flashback?
(a) That he did have some good times in the past.
(b) That his life has been great.
(c) That he has come full circle.
(d) That he didn't like visiting Paris.

4. After Primo Levi's suicide, what causes Styron to question the common view that those who commit suicide are weak and inept?
(a) Levi had survived the Auschwitz and cared for his paralyzed mother.
(b) Levi was involved in so many good causes.
(c) Levi was such a good writer.
(d) Levi worked out all the time and was very strong.

5. What does Styron want us to understand about those who commit suicide?
(a) That secrecy and shame are not the right reaction.
(b) That they were always good writers.
(c) That they had no other way to escape.
(d) That they were weak and couldn't handle pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two people does Styron think of while leaving Paris?

2. What does Styron say he will do with the prize money he won?

3. Though the death of the poet, Randall Jarrell, was ruled accidental, why does Styron say it was probably suicide?

4. What is Styron not able to recover?

5. How did Levi commit suicide?

(see the answer key)

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