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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who visits the office where both Inez and Didion work in Chapter 4?
(a) Jack Lovett.
(b) Wendell Omura.
(c) Harry Victor.
(d) Janet Christian.

2. Which of the following Christians is Inez Victor's grandmother?
(a) Ruthie.
(b) Carol.
(c) Janet.
(d) Cissy.

3. In the style of what English Victorian writer does Didion begin Chapter 2?
(a) Trollope.
(b) Melville.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Elliot.

4. What word does Jack Lovett use to describe Inez Victor when he discusses her with Didion?
(a) Noble.
(b) Fragile.
(c) Aloof.
(d) Resilient.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does Didion use as a stand-in for all the shared associates of men like Jack Lovett?

2. In what location are men like Jack Lovett always comfortable, according to Didion?

3. What romantic painter does Inez publicly state she would never hang in a Zaire embassy?

4. In Chapter 10, what nickname does Inez protest she has never been called?

5. At what museum did Inez work when Harry was at the Justice Department?

(see the answer key)

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