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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Last Words" Part II, "Everywoman.com" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 political.
(b) She says she has never read anything she needs to know.
(c) She says she has never read anything well written.
(d) She says she has never read anything useless.

2. Didion writes in "Everywoman.com" that Martha Stewart does not represent "female domesticity" (93) but represents what instead?
(a) Greed.
(b) Female failure.
(c) Female Power.
(d) Materialism.

3. What is one of the words Didion uses to describe the way the Hearsts spend their money in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
(a) Conservatively.
(b) Responsibility.
(c) Frivolously.
(d) Flamboyance.

4. What does Nancy tell Joan she does not believe in being at the end of "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) An absentee mother.
(b) A busybody.
(c) A meek housewife.
(d) A helicopter parent.

5. What year did Tony Richardson die according to Didion in "Long Distance Runner"?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1999.
(c) 1991.
(d) 1989.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Long Distance Runner," where is Richardson filiming in 1989?

2. What is written on Frank L.'s cake in "Getting Serenity"?

3. What is Martha Stewart's daughter's name?

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

5. What does Skip tell Joan about his son in "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles"?

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