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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the third stage of psychological development in depression?
(a) Extreme fear of abandonment.
(b) Seclusion.
(c) Withdrawal.
(d) Suicide.

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

3. 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) What medicines are effective?
(c) Why would a person who has everything still be depressed?
(d) Why do some who suffered commit suicide while others don't?

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

5. What hope does Styron say a depressed person can have?
(a) That medicines can cure depression and it will never recur.
(b) That suicide will relieve their distress.
(c) That family and friends will be supportive.
(d) That it will eventually subside and healing will occur.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Styron, who wrote about depression and seemed to really understand it?

2. What does Gary confess to Styron about Camus's depression?

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

4. What is the award Styron receives?

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

(see the answer key)

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