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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: The Seacoast of Despair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Didion find on the island?
(a) Copland
(b) Gangland
(c) Peace and harmony
(d) The excesses of wealth

2. What is the title of this essay?
(a) California Dreaming
(b) Surfing in the USSR
(c) California Girls
(d) Kalifornia

3. With what does Didion say Sacramento Valley's history started?
(a) The discovery of gold
(b) The death of President Washington
(c) The discovery of dinosaur bones
(d) The discovery of diamonds

4. How does Didion describe Baez?
(a) As a lady
(b) Naive
(c) A testosterone-fuelled woman
(d) Strange

5. Who is this essay about?
(a) Martin Scorcese
(b) Humphrey Bogart
(c) Howard Hughes
(d) Franklin Roosevelt

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Didion want to find in San Francisco?

2. With whom is Didion initially told to speak?

3. Didion states that the Donner party reverted to _______________________.

4. What does Didion compare Michael to when he talks to his workers?

5. Why could Didion not become Phi Beta Kappa?

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