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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What percentage of artistic types who suffer from depression die from suicide?
(a) 20%.
(b) 100%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 10%.

2. What Camus novel has a profound impact on Styron?
(a) "The Long Day."
(b) "Paradise Lost."
(c) "Reflections of Life."
(d) "The Stranger."

3. What does Styron say he will do with the prize money he won?
(a) Retire early and write.
(b) Give most to charity but save a small portion for a personal matter.
(c) Pay off all old debts so he could concentrate on writing.
(d) Give it all to charity.

4. What bothers Styron about his meeting with Gary's estranged wife?
(a) That he didn't understand her deep depression and what it meant.
(b) Gary's wife wasn't very involved with her son.
(c) Their son was caught between their differences.
(d) That Gary was letting his estranged wife live with him.

5. At what point in one's life does Styron say the seeds of depression are planted?
(a) In childhood.
(b) There is not one particular time, it varies.
(c) In early adulthood.
(d) In middle age.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Levi's friends and admirers react to his suicide?

2. What did Styron's friend, Abbie Hoffman, do professionally?

3. What does Styron believe about a depressed colleague's decision to ride with a reckless driver?

4. Though the death of the poet, Randall Jarrell, was ruled accidental, why does Styron say it was probably suicide?

5. What bothers Styron so much about not being able to meet Camus?

(see the answer key)

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