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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Styron believe he needs to get well that can be provided by the hospital?
(a) More medicine.
(b) A controlled environment and more time.
(c) Freedom from other people and their advise.
(d) Psychotherapy.

2. What does Styron's psychiatrist do that sends him into a deep depression?
(a) Tells him he would have to wait ten days before starting his new medicine, and then it would take 6-8 weeks to work.
(b) Puts him in the hospital.
(c) Tells him to leave his wife if he wanted to get better.
(d) Tells him he was never going to recover.

3. What therapies are used in the hospital?
(a) No therapies; Styron just rested.
(b) Medicines and psychotherapy.
(c) Group therapy, art therapy, and watching TV shows.
(d) Shock treatment and medicines.

4. What is a daily presence during the depth of Styron's depression?
(a) Tears
(b) Death.
(c) His wife.
(d) His children.

5. What does Styron say is the most important consideration in depression?
(a) Discovering which medicines are most effective.
(b) Discovering how early diagnoses can be made or predicted.
(c) Discovering a cure.
(d) Discovering what causes depressed people to commit suicide.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does his diary represent his mental state?

2. Why did Styron's publisher have to reschedule a photo session?

3. What happens to Styron's speech as he becomes more depressed?

4. Though depression tends to recur, what advantage do sufferers of recurrence have?

5. According to Styron, what is the greatest fallacy about suicide?

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