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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As an educator at Berkeley in 1975, what does Didion do every morning?
(a) Has conferences with struggling students.
(b) Reads several papers.
(c) Eats a grapfruit.
(d) Calls Inez in New York.

2. What action does the narrator recall Inez Victor busying herself with on their 1975 meeting in Kuala Lumpur?
(a) Taking down a Christmas tree.
(b) Making a fruit salad.
(c) Checking the air in her Mecercedes' tires.
(d) Stuffing envelopes.

3. On what small detail does Billy Dillon repeatedly fixate as he describes Dwight and Ruthie Christian?
(a) Crackers.
(b) Flowers.
(c) Umbrellas.
(d) Shoes.

4. What do both aerialists and writers know not to do?
(a) Overextend themselves.
(b) Move too fast.
(c) Work without a net.
(d) Look down.

5. At what American magazine did both Joan Didion and Inez Victor work?
(a) Time.
(b) The New Yorker.
(c) Vogue.
(d) Rolling Stone.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city do Janet and Dick Ziegler's children go to school?

2. What is the ill-chosen name of Dick Ziegler's new development?

3. The U.S. ambassador to what country is on the cover of the Newsweek Didion keeps on the writing desk?

4. What special interest does Paul Dillon not allow Inez to have?

5. Who are the real "wildcards" in Jack Lovett's estimation (37)?

(see the answer key)

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