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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6 and 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What puzzles Styron about Camus's book, "The Fall"?
(a) It was a good narrative of what a depressed person experiences.
(b) That the lawyer/narrator would want to kill himself.
(c) It was written so brilliantly though Camus was depressed.
(d) The title didn't fit the story.

3. What characteristic of depression make Styron's memoir limited in benefit?
(a) He couldn't write so well because of the immobility of depression.
(b) He had to be hospitalized so couldn't finish the memoir in the manner he wanted.
(c) Its complexity made the memoir about only one person limited.
(d) He couldn't give good advice because the depression made him suicidal.

4. Who is Styron's literary guide?
(a) Cino del Duca.
(b) Romain Gary.
(c) Abbie Hoffman.
(d) Albert Camus.

5. What happens before Styron meets with Camus?
(a) Camus leaves on his honeymoon.
(b) Camus leaves Paris.
(c) Camus dies in a car accident.
(d) Camus gets upset at Styron for his moods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Styron say about not returning to France?

2. Why doesn't Styron recognize Camus's depression?

3. What effect does the failure of medicines to act quickly have on the depressed person?

4. Which novel character does Styron compare himself with?

5. During one sleepless episode, what does Styron realize about his illness?

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