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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a Holocaust survivor that Solomon meets focus on in the concentration camps?

2. What is Solomon too afraid to do while going through his breakdown?

3. According to the text, marijuana has been known to affect what?

4. Solomon says that most abuse is done out of what feeling?

5. Solomon sites a study on what animal that showed the animal went psychotic without their mothers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How were depressives viewed in the American colonies in the18th century?

2. Why is the fear of grief an important feelings for humans to feel?

3. What affect does Solomon think stress has on depression?

4. Why is it important for one to find a therapist that they like?

5. According to the text, why do depression medications work so well?

6. What affect does Solomon think having too many choices has on humans?

7. Why are family members of suicide victims more likely to see suicide as an option for themselves?

8. Describe Solomon's experience with sexual identity.

9. How does Solomon feel about antidepressants?

10. How does Solomon feel about the prospect of eliminating suffering?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the role of the author's mother's suicide in the book? Why is it significant to the rest of the book? What is Solomon's view of her suicide and about suicide in general?

Essay Topic 2

How might depression have served a purpose in pre-human times? Cite three theories that evolutionists have come up with in regards to depression. What does Solomon make of these theories? Do these theories sound likely?

Essay Topic 3

Explore the idea that women are more likely to become depressed than men. What factors cause this? Why is this fact significant?

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