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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Styron not worried about the loss?
(a) He knows he will be okay later.
(b) He feels he is justified in getting angry.
(c) He knows his friend will be his friend again.
(d) He is so depressed and lethargic that nothing matters to him.

2. What does Styron realize in Paris that helps him understand what is happening to him?
(a) He can't talk to his wife any more.
(b) He can't think clearly anymore.
(c) He begins to cry incessantly and realizes he is depressed.
(d) The circadian cycle gives him moments of brief respite from the deep depression, giving clarity of thought.

3. What does Styron think of these two people, who were close literary friends?
(a) He doesn't think their writing was very good.
(b) He thinks they should have won the award.
(c) He thinks they both had depression.
(d) He thinks they should move to America where they would be more recognized.

4. What city is Styron in at the beginning of the memoir?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Rome.
(c) Paris.
(d) New York.

5. What bothers Styron so much about not being able to meet Camus?
(a) It meant Camus couldn't hear about winning the award.
(b) It meant he had to go to his luncheon with Lady del Duco.
(c) Because it meant he barely missed getting to meet the man whose writing he so admired.
(d) It meant there was another suicide in his circle of friends.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What philosophical question does Gary present as central to all philosophy; a question that confuses Styron until years later when he suffers his depression?

3. What does the suicide of another of Styron's friends lead him to believe?

4. Why is it hard for Styron to recognize depression in his friend, Gary?

5. What does Styron think after his flashback?

(see the answer key)

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