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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Styron say is absent in depression that causes it to be so difficult to endure?
(a) Doctors who know what to do.
(b) The hope of deliverance is absent and makes it almost impossible to endure.
(c) Good hospitals.
(d) Medicine to treat it.

2. What does Styron lose at the luncheon in Paris?
(a) Control of his anger.
(b) His check for $25,000.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His mind.

3. What three factors does Styron name as contributing to depression?
(a) Family trouble, job loss, and financial worries.
(b) Chemicals in the brain, behavior, and genetics.
(c) Early loss, weak character, and no support.
(d) Anger, fear, and desolation.

4. What does the suicide of another of Styron's friends lead him to believe?
(a) That he isn't a very good friend to others since he can't help them.
(b) That life isn't worth living.
(c) That he would soon have to face the fact that his own suicide is his only way out.
(d) That his friends must be weak.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the award Styron receives?

2. What does the depression and sense of hopelessness cause Styron to do?

3. What is the hardest piece of writing Styron attempted during his depression?

4. What two substances contribute to Styron's depression?

5. What is Styron not able to recover?

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