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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Why I Write," "Telling Stories" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One meeting attendee in "Getting Serenity" says his idea is getting what?
(a) Married.
(b) Serenity.
(c) Sober.
(d) A job.

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 Berkeley Barb.
(c) The East Village Voice.
(d) The Free Press.

3. 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) Flamboyance.
(c) Frivolously.
(d) Conservatively.

4. What kind of talk does Didion find unsettling during the meeting in "Getting Serenity"?
(a) Talk of lying and stealing.
(b) Talk of death and dying.
(c) Obsession with dates and numbers.
(d) Talk of miracles and Higher Powers.

5. How old is the man who speaks second in "Getting Serenity" who states that the city has "destroyed" (23) him?
(a) 18.
(b) 48.
(c) 75.
(d) 22.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Walter Davis from "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles" stationed in Holland?

2. What was Didion suffering from which became one of the images used in her novel A Book of Common Prayer?

3. In what grade does Joan's friend get on the essay she wrote for him in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice," how many applications does Joan say the private kindergarten her friend was trying to get her child into received?

4. How many people does Didion write in "A Trip to Xanadu" visited San Simeon annually?

5. In "Telling Stories," how many places had Didion lived by the time she took English 106A?

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