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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. 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)?
(a) The New York Times.
(b) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(c) The EastSide Reporter.
(d) The Wall Street Journal.

2. Who built the castle Didion discusses in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
(a) Orson Welles.
(b) Henry Ford.
(c) William Randolph Hearst.
(d) William Butler Yeats.

3. What is the name of the castle Didion discusses at the start of "A Trip to Xanadu"?
(a) Saint Simone.
(b) San Simeon.
(c) Castillo del Sol.
(d) The Sacramento.

4. In "A Trip to Xanadu," Didion says that San Simeon is "exactly the castle" (26) what type of person would build if that person were wealthy?
(a) A man.
(b) A woman.
(c) A servant.
(d) A child.

5. How many people does Didion write in "A Trip to Xanadu" visited San Simeon annually?
(a) 4 million.
(b) 6,000.
(c) 1 million.
(d) 185,000.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Trip to Xanadu," who does Didion say she took to tour San Simeon after it became a state monument?

2. What does Didion note that meeting attendees have an unusual knack for in "Getting Serenity"?

3. How many people are at the meeting Joan attends in "Getting Serenity?

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

5. What does one of the speakers in "Getting Serenity" say used to happen to him each time he passed Gardena?

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