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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does this music make him realize?
(a) That his suicide would hurt his wife too much.
(b) That he couldn't leave all the pleasant memories that the house around him held.
(c) That music could restore his soul.
(d) That he didn't want to life any more.

2. From Job to Styron's day, he says artists and writers have been trying to do what?
(a) Cheer up people who suffer from depression with their works.
(b) Explain the blackness of the fantasia of depression.
(c) Build better relationships to overcome depression.
(d) Overcome the effects of depression that overcome artists.

3. What does Styron's psychiatrist do that sends him into a deep depression?
(a) Tells him to leave his wife if he wanted to get better.
(b) Tells him he was never going to recover.
(c) Tells him he would have to wait ten days before starting his new medicine, and then it would take 6-8 weeks to work.
(d) Puts him in the hospital.

4. According to Styron, what is between Gaelic and Americana?
(a) The restaurant he went to after getting his award.
(b) The French bidet.
(c) His memoir.
(d) Paris museums.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the doctor from Johns Hopkins who gave the name depression to the disease?

2. Which novel character does Styron compare himself with?

3. What is Styron's avoidance of death due to?

4. What does Styron's psychiatrist recommend to him about the hospital?

5. What does Styron say the award he received should have done for him?

(see the answer key)

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