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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 is one of the few things that was said to have been changed in Hemingway's True at First Light?
(a) Names of places.
(b) Names of characters.
(c) The time period.
(d) Many of the action verbs.

2. In "Pretty Nancy," what does Joan say Nancy's father did for work?
(a) He was a politician.
(b) He was a neurosurgeon.
(c) He was a musician.
(d) He was a schoolteacher.

3. Who does Didion say is the only woman Mapplethorpe photographed who came across as being "entirely in charge of herself" (62)?
(a) Grace Jones.
(b) Patti Smith.
(c) Joan Didion.
(d) Yoko Ono.

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

5. In "Some Women," what word is Mapplethorpe said to dislike regarding his art?
(a) Shocking.
(b) Boring.
(c) Unexpected.
(d) Outrageous.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Didion say she used to eavesdrop on people's conversations thinking "it was a good way to learn about life" (23) in "Getting Serenity"?

2. At the start of "Why I Write," Didion says that "writing is the act of saying" (42) what?

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

4. What did Tony Richardson begin doing years before his death for "something to do" between film shoots?

5. In "Why I Write," Didion says she writes to understand what sorts of things?

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