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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What term does Styron give to the loss of a parent or something early in life?
(a) Incomplete mourning.
(b) Insurmountable loss.
(c) Dark depression.
(d) Lifelong loss.

2. What does Styron's psychiatrist recommend to him about the hospital?
(a) To plan on staying for a year in the hospital.
(b) To go to a hospital in Paris so no one would know.
(c) To avoid the hospital at all costs.
(d) To go to the hospital for treatment.

3. According to Styron, what is the touchstone of depression?
(a) Support.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Loss.

4. How does Styron mange to avoid the recommended shock treatment?
(a) His doctor doesn't believe in it.
(b) He begins to get better immediately.
(c) He refuses to let them do it.
(d) He pretends that he had already had it.

5. What is a common occurrence in people planning suicide?
(a) Sending all family away for a time.
(b) A second self who observes the self planning its destruction.
(c) Detailed plans for their death.
(d) A revision of their will.

Short Answer Questions

1. What note does Styron want to copy for his goodbye letter?

2. At the dinner party, how does Styron react to the four friends?

3. From Job to Styron's day, he says artists and writers have been trying to do what?

4. What does Styron do to try and stop the hopeless feelings?

5. How does his diary represent his mental state?

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