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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Some Women," "The Long Distance Runner," "Last Words" Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does one of the speakers in "Getting Serenity" say used to happen to him each time he passed Gardena?
(a) He would go to a bar.
(b) He would vomit.
(c) He would break out in a cold sweat.
(d) He would buy drugs.

3. Which of Joan's relatives does she show her college rejection letter to in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her sister.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) Her niece.

4. What is the name of the female character in A Book of Common Prayer which Didion discusses in "Why I Write" ?
(a) Emily Dickens.
(b) Lily Davis.
(c) Charlotte Douglass.
(d) Charly Dugan.

5. Where did Hemingway shoot himself in 1961?
(a) Ketchum, Idaho.
(b) Africa.
(c) Havana.
(d) Key West.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Telling Stories," what does Didion say she did in English 106A to make herself invisible in class?

2. Though Didion agrees that writing in underground newspapers is often "amateurish and badly written," she disagrees with what sentiment?

3. In "Some Women," what word is Mapplethorpe said to dislike regarding his art?

4. What does Didion say she has never read in an underground paper in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?

5. How does Nancy's son get home from school in "Pretty Nancy"?

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