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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Styron respond to the experimental approach?
(a) He immediately got better.
(b) He didn't notice anything, but was hopeful so did better.
(c) He was in mental anguish, wanting immediate relief.
(d) He demanded another drug.

2. Why does Styron think of his mother as he listens to the music?
(a) He had heard her sing it.
(b) It spoke of a lady like her.
(c) It was played at her funeral.
(d) She played it on the piano.

3. What does Styron say would prevent many suicides?
(a) Immediate hospitalization.
(b) Someone to watch the depressed person at all times.
(c) Stronger medicines.
(d) Strong support from family, friends, and professionsals.

4. What effect does the failure of medicines to act quickly have on the depressed person?
(a) They give up and do something different.
(b) It keeps them in a state of anxiety and hopelessness.
(c) They get better even though the medicines don't work.
(d) Many of them commit suicide.

5. According to Styron, what is the greatest fallacy about suicide?
(a) That suicide is a painless way to go.
(b) The idea that there is one particular cause.
(c) That people only have to "buck up."
(d) That all depressed people commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From Job to Styron's day, he says artists and writers have been trying to do what?

3. What piece of music moves Styron to his breakthrough and hospitalization?

4. What happens before Styron meets with Camus?

5. When is depression at its worst?

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