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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 the narrator characterize Inez's daily political life in this chapter?
(a) Being eaten away from the inside.
(b) Sleepwalking.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Running a marathon.

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

3. According to news reports in Chapter 1, how is Paul Christian wounded?
(a) A prison scuffle.
(b) A fall in the prison shower.
(c) A tumble down stairs.
(d) A suicide attempt.

4. Whose presence at the house does Billy Dillon not mention in his telling of events in the chapter?
(a) Harry Victor.
(b) Paul Christian.
(c) Jack Lovett.
(d) Jessie Victor.

5. What type of suits does Jack Lovett customarily wear?
(a) Seersucker.
(b) Leisure.
(c) Three-piece.
(d) Pinstripe.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the island that Lovett describes in Chapter 1?

2. Which of the following is not an assumption Inez makes about the owner of the room in which she stays in Hong Kong?

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

4. Which of the following is not a measure Inez takes to protect her privacy?

5. Which of the following actions is not a part of Inez's mantra of forgetting?

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