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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Styron calls depression:
(a) Very rare.
(b) Terrible sadness.
(c) Disorder of mood.
(d) Very common.

2. What piece of music moves Styron to his breakthrough and hospitalization?
(a) Beethoven's Fifth.
(b) Brahms's Alto Rhapsody.
(c) Halleluah Chorus.
(d) Chopin's Funeral March.

3. 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.

4. What happens to persons in physical pain that is not experienced with mental pain?
(a) Ones in physical pain receive medicine but don't get better.
(b) Depression hurts worse.
(c) Mental pain doesn't disable one as much as physical pain.
(d) A superhuman ability to endure physical pain for a time.

5. What does Styron say about not returning to France?
(a) It cost so much to go and he was nearly broke.
(b) He doesn't like to travel.
(c) He believes one day in the near future he will take his own life.
(d) He had such a miserable time in Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does he throw his diary in the garbage instead of burning it?

2. What reaction does Styron have to group therapy?

3. Why did Styron's publisher have to reschedule a photo session?

4. What does Styron say about assigning reasons for suicide to those who take that route?

5. What is a daily presence during the depth of Styron's depression?

(see the answer key)

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