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

2. What is Didion's father's profession?
(a) Geologist.
(b) Actuary.
(c) Physicist.
(d) Economist.

3. Which of the following political figures is featured in a framed picture in Harry Victor's office?
(a) Harry Truman.
(b) Adlai Stevenson.
(c) Walter Winchell.
(d) Eleanor Roosevelt.

4. In what area's development does Dick Ziegler first make his money?
(a) Vietnam.
(b) Australia.
(c) Hong Kong.
(d) Hawaii.

5. What is Harry Victor's first governmental office?
(a) Lieutenant governor.
(b) State senator.
(c) Justice department.
(d) Representative for Hawaii.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At what American magazine did both Joan Didion and Inez Victor work?

3. What appointment does Harry Victor turn down to run for President?

4. How does the narrator characterize Inez's daily political life in this chapter?

5. What was the subject of the novel that Didion abandoned?

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