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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. Styron dates the onset of his deep depression to what event?
(a) His inability to drink alcohol.
(b) His chilren all leaving home.
(c) His wife's leaving him.
(d) The death of several of his friends.

2. How did Lincoln attempt to vanquish death due to his own hand?
(a) By being the best family man he could.
(b) Through his work that was valued by posterity.
(c) By declaring war.
(d) By taking medicines prescribed to him.

3. How does Styron explain his approach to his self-destruction?
(a) He was going to choose a painless method.
(b) He knew he would hurt his wife, but had to do it.
(c) Melodramatic, one part of him the actor, and one part of him the audience.
(d) It was fully deserved.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Styron compares the theories about depression to the theories about what?

2. What causes Styron to lose his voice in Paris?

3. What two things does Styron believe led to his depression?

4. Why is Styron so sad about Hoffman's suicide?

5. What happens when Styron's medicine is changed?

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