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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Alicia and the Underground Press," "Getting Serenity," "A Trip to Xanadu" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "A Trip to Xanadu," what is the name of the pool at San Simeon?
(a) Neptune.
(b) Venus.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Saturn.

2. Didion uses and example from what underground paper at the end of her essay "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The East Village Voice.
(c) The Free Press.
(d) The Berkeley Barb.

3. Who is the author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean?
(a) Alicia Didion.
(b) Ernest Hemingway.
(c) Joan Didion.
(d) Martha Stewart.

4. In "Alicia and the Underground Press," what does Didion feel the claim to have no bias in reporting leads to in writing?
(a) Objectivity.
(b) Honesty.
(c) Dishonesty.
(d) Clarity.

5. How many people are at the meeting Joan attends in "Getting Serenity?
(a) 12.
(b) 4.
(c) 25.
(d) 40.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What style of writing does Didion compare Alicia's underground piece to in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?

3. From where could people see the castle Didion discusses in "A Trip to Xanadu"?

4. What is one of the words Didion uses to describe the way the Hearsts spend their money in "A Trip to Xanadu"?

5. What is one of the newspapers that the author lists as one of the few that do not make her feel as though "the oxygen has been cut off from [her] brain tissue" (20)?

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