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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What two people does Styron think of while leaving Paris?
(a) His son and brother.
(b) Job and Milton.
(c) His father and brother.
(d) Albert Camus and Romain Gary.

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

3. What is the award Styron receives?
(a) Prix Mondial Cino del Duca award.
(b) Nobel Peace Prize.
(c) He didn't receive one, he was giving one.
(d) Newberry Award.

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

5. How did Levi's friends and admirers react to his suicide?
(a) They were devastated and grieved over it.
(b) They tried to ignore him and his work after that.
(c) They were mystified and believed him to be weak.
(d) They didn't believe it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens before Styron meets with Camus?

2. What does Levi's suicide cause Styron to do?

3. What does Gary reveal to Styron about the effect the death of his ex-wife had on him?

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

5. What happens to Styron's writing as he descends into depression?

(see the answer key)

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