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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Last Words" Part II, "Everywoman.com" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Nancy's son's nickname in "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) Captain.
(b) The Skipper.
(c) First Mate.
(d) Gilligan.

2. Among what other items does Joan's rejection letter sit in a drawer at her mother's house in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?
(a) Bridesmaid photographs and dried butterfly orchids.
(b) Joan's journals and publications.
(c) Dead batteries and outdated electrical cords.
(d) Junk mail and old keys.

3. What is F. Scott Fitzgerald quoted as calling Hemingway in a letter to Maxwell Perkins in "Last Words"?
(a) The real thing.
(b) A rising talent.
(c) An okay writer.
(d) A real hack.

4. How old is Nancy's daughter Patti in "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 19.

5. What is one of the few things that was said to have been changed in Hemingway's True at First Light?
(a) Many of the action verbs.
(b) The time period.
(c) Names of places.
(d) Names of characters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Alicia from "Alicia and the Underground Press" from?

2. Where does Didion say she used to eavesdrop on people's conversations thinking "it was a good way to learn about life" (23) in "Getting Serenity"?

3. What does one meeting attendee tell Joan happens to kids upon the first time entering a gambling club?

4. What is one of the images Didion says many people have seen of Hemingway?

5. In "Last Words," what writer does Didion say she could see Hemingway's influence on while teaching at Berkeley?

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