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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does the airline representative have difficulty doing when he meets Inez Victor in the rain?
(a) Shaking her hand.
(b) Taking her bag.
(c) Crossing her name off the manifest.
(d) Putting on her lei.

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

3. When Billy Dillon and Inez Victor visit Paul Christian, how does Paul say his brother must be celebrating?
(a) Killing the fatted calf.
(b) Breaking out the champagne.
(c) Saying thanks to the lord.
(d) Dancing in the street.

4. In Inez's list of stars, what is the tenth and last to have been?
(a) Meridian star.
(b) Twinkling star.
(c) North star.
(d) Night star.

5. What event were Inez and Jack attending when they first met?
(a) A debutante ball.
(b) The christening of a ship.
(c) A ballet.
(d) An inauguration.

Short Answer Questions

1. When explaining to her father how he is not poor, what does Inez tell him he is not?

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

3. Where is Adlai attending summer school during Jessie's crisis?

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

5. In what area's development does Dick Ziegler first make his money?

(see the answer key)

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