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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does one meeting attendee tell Joan happens to kids upon the first time entering a gambling club?
(a) They are so shocked they leave.
(b) He is hooked for life.
(c) Most do not become addicted.
(d) He loses his money right away.

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

3. What does the newsman want Nancy to do as she answers the first question he asks her in "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) Pour some lemonade.
(b) Smile and nod.
(c) Giggle and look away.
(d) Nip a bud.

4. In what city in California does the meeting in "Getting Serenity" take place?
(a) Gardena.
(b) Hollywood.
(c) Sacramento.
(d) San Diego.

5. In "Alicia and the Underground Press," what does Didion feel the claim to have no bias in reporting leads to in writing?
(a) Honesty.
(b) Dishonesty.
(c) Objectivity.
(d) Clarity.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Pretty Nancy," Didion describes Nancy has having a smile of someone who did what?

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

3. In "Pretty Nancy," where does Joan say Nancy went to college?

4. In "A Trip to Xanadu," Didion says that San Simeon is "exactly the castle" (26) what type of person would build if that person were wealthy?

5. In "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice," what does Joan say her father did when she told him of her rejection letter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the tour guides in "A Trip to Xandadu" say about Hearsts sons?

2. In "A Trip to Xanadu," what is the castle people could see from Highway 1 and who built it?

3. What does Didion say about objectivity in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?

4. Where does Didion say she felt she needed to be in the days following the Gambler's Anonymous meeting in "Getting Serenity"?

5. What is Joan doing at Nancy Reagan's home in "Pretty Nancy" and who else is there and why?

6. What does Walter Davis say about his perspective on the war at the end of "Fathers, Sons, and Screaming Eagles"?

7. How did Joan's father react when she told him she did not get into Stanford in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?

8. What does Didion says about the way Alicia writers her opinion piece about Ann Arbor in "Alicia"?

9. Describe the 22-year-old speaker in "Getting Serenity."

10. What happened when Joan wrote a paper for one of her friends at Stanford? What was the paper about? What grade did he get? What grade did she get?

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