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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bothers Styron about his meeting with Gary's estranged wife?
(a) Their son was caught between their differences.
(b) That Gary was letting his estranged wife live with him.
(c) That he didn't understand her deep depression and what it meant.
(d) Gary's wife wasn't very involved with her son.

2. What does Styron say depression is like?
(a) Drowning or suffocation.
(b) Makes him angry at everyone.
(c) A sadness.
(d) An extra sleepy mood.

3. Styron agrees with what literary guide's belief?
(a) All men suffer from deep depression.
(b) Depression always leads to suicide.
(c) Depression never causes 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 didn't want Jarrell's widow to receive the large insurance settlement.
(b) He wanted to gain support for his theory that depression led to suicide.
(c) He wanted to discredit Jarrell because of a disagreement they had.
(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. How did Levi commit suicide?
(a) Hurled himself down a flight of stairs.
(b) Took an overdose of pills.
(c) Hung himself.
(d) Stepped in front of a moving car.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Styron's companions notice about him?

2. What did Styron do for Hoffman regarding a political demonstration led by Hoffman?

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

4. What reaction to the op-ed piece causes Styron to decide to write this memoir?

5. Why would Jarrell's widow not want to admit he committed suicide?

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