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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 are Didion and the TV crew there to observe Nancy doing in "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) Helping her son with his homework.
(b) Cooking for a dinner party.
(c) Writing her memoir.
(d) Whatever she would do on an average Tuesday morning.

2. What is English 106A, the course Didion discusses in "Telling Stories"?
(a) A British Lit class.
(b) A writer's workshop.
(c) An American literature class.
(d) A poetry workshop.

3. In "Telling Stories," what does Didion say she learned to do in writing "When Did Music Come This Way"?
(a) Write in third person.
(b) Use imagery.
(c) Write in first person.
(d) Write with control.

4. How long after his father's suicide did Hemingway submit the completed manuscript of A Farewell to Arms?
(a) 6 weeks.
(b) 3 days.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 3 years.

5. From whom does Didion say she stole the title "Why I Write"?
(a) Orson Wells.
(b) George Orwell.
(c) George Eliot.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year did Jerry Oppenheimer's Martha Stewart biography come out?

2. From where does Didion receive a rejection letter in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?

3. One of the meeting attendees, Frank L., has been going to meetings for six years and on the night Joan attended had not placed a bet in how long?

4. In "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice," Joan dates a man who aspires to be what?

5. In "Last Words," what is it said that Mary Hemingway wrote regarding Hemingway in her memoir?

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