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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. How many nights does one of the speakers say he has been free from his addiction in "Getting Serenity"?
(a) 365.
(b) 87.
(c) 13.
(d) 1,223.

2. What does Didion say she did when she first read the college rejection letter in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?
(a) She tore the letter.
(b) She cried.
(c) She called her mom.
(d) She did not really care.

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

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?
(a) A servant.
(b) A woman.
(c) A child.
(d) A man.

5. One of the meeting attendees, Frank L., has been going to meetings for six years and on the night Joan attended had not placed a bet in how long?
(a) 5 years.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 6 years.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the first speaker in "Getting Serenity" do before going out to the club?

3. What grade does Joan get on the essay she wrote for her friend in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?

4. In "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice," what does Joan say her friend was disappointed about in her 4-year-old's reference letters?

5. What does Nancy tell Joan is important to a man at the end of "Pretty Nancy"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Joan on April 25, 1952 in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice" and how did she react?

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

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

4. How does Didion describe the way the Hearsts spent money in "A Trip to Xanadu"?

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

6. Who is Skip Skivington and what does he tell Joan about his son in "Fathers, Sons, and Screaming Eagles"?

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

8. What does Didion say underground papers are able to do that conventional papers cannot in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?

9. Why does Didion say that the so-called underground papers she discusses in "Alicia" are not really underground?

10. What does Nancy Reagan show Joan at the State Capital and what does she say about it?

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