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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 does Nancy say her husband never did even for the movies?
(a) Smiled.
(b) Wore makeup.
(c) Combed his hair.
(d) Wore new clothes.

2. What did Hemingway to do try to help his struggle in working on his Africa novel?
(a) He did not read it for a year.
(b) He wrote some short stories.
(c) He went on vacation.
(d) He had his wife critique it.

3. Didion writes in "Everywoman.com" that Martha Stewart does not represent "female domesticity" (93) but represents what instead?
(a) Female Power.
(b) Greed.
(c) Female failure.
(d) Materialism.

4. What does Nancy tell Joan is important to a man at the end of "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) Having a pretty wife.
(b) Having a pretty place to work.
(c) Having a quiet place to work.
(d) Having a home cooked meal waiting for him.

5. What is one of the words Didion uses to describe the way the Hearsts spend their money in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
(a) Responsibility.
(b) Frivolously.
(c) Flamboyance.
(d) Conservatively.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the newsman want Nancy to do as she answers the first question he asks her in "Pretty Nancy"?

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. In what branch of the army was the second speaker in "Getting Serenity"?

4. In what city in California does the meeting in "Getting Serenity" take place?

5. In "Why I Write," Didion says she writes to understand what sorts of things?

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