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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. Where is Alicia from "Alicia and the Underground Press" from?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Anchorage.
(c) Ann Arbor.
(d) Minneapolis.

2. Where is Martha Stewart from?
(a) Hackensack, New Jersey.
(b) Flushing, New York.
(c) Nutley, New Jersey.
(d) Westport, California.

3. What is the title of Oppenheimer's Martha Stewart biography?
(a) Martha Mania.
(b) Just Desserts.
(c) Cake or Bust.
(d) Manic Martha.

4. In "Telling Stories," what Hemingway short story does Didion mention as an example of a writer's "absolute control" (54)?
(a) "A Clean Well-Lighted Place."
(b) "The Killers."
(c) "Hills Like White Elephants."
(d) "Snows of Kilimanjaro."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which friend of Hemingway and his wife does Didion mention at the start of "Last Words"?

2. How many people are at the meeting Joan attends in "Getting Serenity?

3. Who is the author of Let Me Tell You What I Mean?

4. What is something Didion felt her classmates in English 106A had that she did not in "Telling Stories"?

5. In "Last Words," what is Hemingway said to have done to his letters after Ford Madox Ford told him to "write a letter thinking of how it would read to posterity"?

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