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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. From where could people see the castle Didion discusses in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
(a) Highway 15.
(b) Highway 61.
(c) Highway 1.
(d) Highway 80.

2. 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?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 6 years.
(c) 1 year.
(d) 5 years.

3. What does Didion say she has never read in an underground paper in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
(a) She says she has never read anything she needs to know.
(b) She says she has never read anything useless.
(c) She says she has never read anything political.
(d) She says she has never read anything well written.

4. What does the first speaker in "Getting Serenity" do before going out to the club?
(a) Put her children to bed.
(b) Shoot up.
(c) Buy drugs.
(d) Drink 1/5 of vodka.

5. Who does Didion say mainstream writers dine with at the end of "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
(a) Harrison Ford.
(b) Henry Ford.
(c) President Kennedy.
(d) Howard Hughes.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Didion uses and example from what underground paper at the end of her essay "Alicia and the Underground Press"?

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

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