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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of depression parallels the threshold of pain?
(a) Its deep intensity.
(b) Its unrelenting nature.
(c) Its pervasiveness.
(d) The inability of the depressed person to absorb pain beyond predictable periods of time.

2. What does Styron call the condition of the person suffering unrelenting depression?
(a) Potentially criminal people.
(b) The situation of the walking wounded.
(c) The position of being in a black fog.
(d) A sure suicide.

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

4. What happens when Styron's medicine is changed?
(a) He can't sleep at night.
(b) His suicidal thoughts cease.
(c) He becomes violent and has to be restrained.
(d) His depression deepens.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What new approach does Styron's psychiatrist use?

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

3. Why does he throw his diary in the garbage instead of burning it?

4. Which novel character does Styron compare himself with?

5. What sort of people does Styron say is more prone to depression?

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