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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 call the condition of the person suffering unrelenting depression?
(a) The situation of the walking wounded.
(b) Potentially criminal people.
(c) A sure suicide.
(d) The position of being in a black fog.

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

3. How does Styron's body feel in the beginning of his depression?
(a) Numb, frail, disjointed, and clumsy.
(b) Manic, hyper, shaky, and strange.
(c) Energetic, strong, capable, and lively.
(d) Heavy, lethargic, awkward, and bloated.

4. What does Styron's psychiatrist recommend to him about the hospital?
(a) To avoid the hospital at all costs.
(b) To plan on staying for a year in the hospital.
(c) To go to a hospital in Paris so no one would know.
(d) To go to the hospital for treatment.

5. What happens to persons in physical pain that is not experienced with mental pain?
(a) Mental pain doesn't disable one as much as physical pain.
(b) A superhuman ability to endure physical pain for a time.
(c) Ones in physical pain receive medicine but don't get better.
(d) Depression hurts worse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Camus novel has a profound impact on Styron?

2. Why does he throw his diary in the garbage instead of burning it?

3. What three brand-name items does Styron use to destroy his diary?

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

5. Who is Styron's literary guide?

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