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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Styron say is absent in depression that causes it to be so difficult to endure?
(a) Medicine to treat it.
(b) The hope of deliverance is absent and makes it almost impossible to endure.
(c) Doctors who know what to do.
(d) Good hospitals.

2. What does Styron believe he needs to get well that can be provided by the hospital?
(a) Psychotherapy.
(b) Freedom from other people and their advise.
(c) A controlled environment and more time.
(d) More medicine.

3. Though Styron feels alone, who is always with him?
(a) His wife, Rose.
(b) His children.
(c) His friend, Gary.
(d) His psychiatrist.

4. Right before the onset of his depression, Styron begins to suffer from what?
(a) Excessive sleepiness.
(b) Hypochondria.
(c) Extreme joy.
(d) Lack of sexual interest.

5. What aspect of depression parallels the threshold of pain?
(a) Its unrelenting nature.
(b) Its deep intensity.
(c) Its pervasiveness.
(d) The inability of the depressed person to absorb pain beyond predictable periods of time.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Styron spend his summers?

2. What two feelings does Styron experience as he planned his suicide?

3. What clues does Gary reveal that Styron later learns was probably signs of deep depression?

4. In the depth of his depression in Paris, what does Styron realize he would have to decide?

5. What note does Styron want to copy for his goodbye letter?

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