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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Carol Christian die?
(a) An airplane crash.
(b) Breast cancer.
(c) Suicide.
(d) A drug overdose.

2. To what does Didion compare the effects of time in 1975?
(a) A weathering brook.
(b) A black hole.
(c) An atomic bomb.
(d) An all-you-can-eat buffet.

3. Frances Landau is said to be the grand niece of the first Jew ever to serve on what?
(a) The Board of Directors of the Met.
(b) The Joint Chiefs of Staff.
(c) A Presidential cabinet.
(d) The Supreme Court.

4. By most accounts, Paul Christian is deeply changed by his trip where?
(a) Tunis.
(b) Honduras.
(c) Moldova.
(d) Laos.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of the chapter, what does Dillon insist Inez say when asked about her father?

3. Who is the witness at the wedding of Inez and Harry Victor?

4. What evidence does Jack Lovett bring to the Christian house that Jessie is in Vietnam?

5. At Janet's wedding, what does Carol Christian loudly lament not being able to afford for her daughter?

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