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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Adlai attending summer school during Jessie's crisis?
(a) Oakland.
(b) Peoria.
(c) Colorado Springs.
(d) Austin.

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

3. What happens to Paul Christian after he sends the cable to Inez?
(a) He is committed to an insane asylum.
(b) He commits suicide.
(c) He takes in a film.
(d) He flees Hawaii for Thailand.

4. In the style of what English Victorian writer does Didion begin Chapter 2?
(a) Trollope.
(b) Melville.
(c) Dickens.
(d) Elliot.

5. Who visits the office where both Inez and Didion work in Chapter 4?
(a) Janet Christian.
(b) Jack Lovett.
(c) Harry Victor.
(d) Wendell Omura.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of her family will Inez visit in the hospital within a couple hours of landing?

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

3. What romantic painter does Inez publicly state she would never hang in a Zaire embassy?

4. What is Inez's date doing when Jack Lovett happens upon them in a cane field?

5. How long has Inez Victor been married to Harry as of 1975?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Paul Christian's attitude regarding the shooting?

2. What rule of nonfiction does Didion demonstrate in this chapter, and how does she do so?

3. Does Inez ever consider leaving Harry Victor?

4. What does Billy Dillon want from Frank Tawagata?

5. What is happening to Jack Lovett at the end of Chapter 1?

6. What off-message statement does Inez make to an Associated Press reporter in Chapter 7?

7. What is Jack Lovett's stated reason for being in Honolulu in 1975?

8. What does Janet Ziegler recall in her final conversation with Inez Victor?

9. What cable is sent to Inez Victor on October 2, 1975?

10. What does Didion think when Inez finally invited her to Kuala Lumpur?

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