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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. What color does Jack Lovett recall the sky being during the Pacific nuclear tests?
(a) Gray.
(b) Orange.
(c) Blue.
(d) Pink.

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

3. By what term does Janet refer to the governess that looked after Inez and her as children?
(a) Lady-in-waiting.
(b) Biddy.
(c) Our girl.
(d) Mademoiselle.

4. The one witness interviewed at the Christian crime scene is of what connection to Janet Ziegler?
(a) Her housekeeper.
(b) A neighbor.
(c) Her chauffeur.
(d) An inlaw.

5. Why is Jack Lovett in Honolulu when the Christian murders occur?
(a) He is there to visit Janet Christian.
(b) He is meeting helicopters from Vietnam.
(c) He arranged the murder.
(d) He lives there.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Inez Victor's maiden name?

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

4. To what does Didion compare the effects of time in 1975?

5. According to one of Carol Christian's axioms, what does a woman blowing smoke at a man mean?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Inez become comfortable in her own life over the course of the novel?

2. How do the Victors deal with Jessie's heroin addiction?

3. How does Jessie return to the United States?

4. Describe the scene at the Christian house that immediately precedes Inez's leaving Hawaii with Jack Lovett.

5. How does the US government figure out thaat Jack Lovett is dead?

6. What information about Paul Christian's crime does Didion reveal in Chapter 3?

7. How does Didion characterize Jack Lovett's life?

8. Why is the helicopter engineer returning to Vietnam?

9. Why does Inez listen to the radio all night at end of the chapter?

10. What does Inez Victor want to discuss with Didion in 1975 instead of her affair with Jack Lovett?

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