1. According to Styron, how many women have won the Prix Mondial Cino del Duca award?
(a) Twenty-five.
(b) More women than men.
(c) Only five.
(d) None.

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

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

4. Though the death of the poet, Randall Jarrell, was ruled accidental, why does Styron say it was probably suicide?
(a) He wanted to gain support for his theory that depression led to suicide.
(b) He wanted to discredit Jarrell because of a disagreement they had.
(c) He didn't want Jarrell's widow to receive the large insurance settlement.
(d) Because of Jarrell's depression and the fact there was no reason for him to be on the road on which he was struck by a car.

5. What does the suicide of another of Styron's friends lead him to believe?
(a) That his friends must be weak.
(b) That he isn't a very good friend to others since he can't help them.
(c) That life isn't worth living.
(d) That he would soon have to face the fact that his own suicide is his only way out.