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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What appointment does Harry Victor turn down to run for President?
(a) An ambassadorship.
(b) President of the World Bank.
(c) Attorney General.
(d) Representative to the U.N.

2. What comic book character do soldiers name the nuclear device that Lovett recalls being detonated?
(a) Wonder Woman.
(b) Green Lantern.
(c) Lil' Abner.
(d) Superman.

3. According to Inez, what is the major casualty of public life?
(a) Privacy.
(b) Emotion.
(c) Memory.
(d) Integrity.

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

5. What special interest does Paul Dillon not allow Inez to have?
(a) Drug abuse education.
(b) Art preservation.
(c) Refugees.
(d) Endangered species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What mistake happened at a Nevada detonation Lovett mentions in Chapter 1?

2. What is Inez Victor's maiden name?

3. According to one of Carol Christian's axioms, what does a woman blowing smoke at a man mean?

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

5. In the style of what English Victorian writer does Didion begin Chapter 2?

(see the answer key)

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