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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 a daily presence during the depth of Styron's depression?
(a) Tears
(b) Death.
(c) His children.
(d) His wife.

2. How does Styron describe his recovery from depression?
(a) He says he wasn't sure he was cured.
(b) He says he was suddenly ecstatic.
(c) He says he suddenly felt like a body with sweet bodily juices flowing through him.
(d) He says it was a slow, painful process.

3. What happens before Styron meets with Camus?
(a) Camus leaves Paris.
(b) Camus dies in a car accident.
(c) Camus gets upset at Styron for his moods.
(d) Camus leaves on his honeymoon.

4. Who does Styron compare his psychiatrist to?
(a) The parish priest in "Madame Bovary."
(b) His wife.
(c) A quack.
(d) His friend, Gary.

5. In what way does Styron's depression come upon him?
(a) He really didn't know how it happened.
(b) It hit him suddenly one night.
(c) A slight sadness intensified rapidly over time.
(d) Slowly in increments.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does this music make him realize?

3. Why are late afternoons so distressing to Styron?

4. Sir Walter Scott and the Brontes linked what two illnesses interchangeably?

5. What happens to persons in physical pain that is not experienced with mental pain?

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