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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. Who is Nancy's husband in "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) Ronald Reagan.
(b) George Bush.
(c) Frank Sinatra.
(d) Richard Nixon.
2. 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?
(a) Nobody mentioned she was potty-trained.
(b) Nobody mentioned her songwriting skills.
(c) Nobody mentioned how much money her parents made.
(d) Nobody mentioned her interest in art.
3. Didion uses and example from what underground paper at the end of her essay "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
(a) The Berkeley Barb.
(b) The Wall Street Journal.
(c) The Free Press.
(d) The East Village Voice.
4. Where does Nancy's daughter go to school in "Pretty Nancy"?
(a) A public school in San Francisco.
(b) A boarding school in Arizona.
(c) A private school in Sacramento.
(d) Nancy homeschooled.
5. What is the subject of the essay Joan's friend asked her to write for him in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?
(a) Milton's Paradise Lost.
(b) Shakespeare's Hamlet.
(c) Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms.
(d) Conrad's Nostromo.
Short Answer Questions
1. What grade does Joan's friend get on the essay she wrote for him in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?
2. What kind of talk does Didion find unsettling during the meeting in "Getting Serenity"?
3. What term does Joan point out that her relatives uses when discussing where she sent her college applications?
4. What is the full name of the man Joan is speaking with at the start of "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles"?
5. In "Pretty Nancy," Didion describes Nancy has having a smile of someone who did what?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "A Trip to Xanadu," what is the castle people could see from Highway 1 and who built it?
2. What part of the meeting in "Getting Serenity does Didion find most unsettling and why?
3. What does Joan say about the "great adventure" the men who fought in the 1940s compared to their sons "great adventure" (40) in Vietnam?
4. What do the tour guides in "A Trip to Xandadu" say about Hearsts sons?
5. How does Didion describe the tone of the tour guides in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
6. Describe Nancy Reagan's interaction with her son at the end of "Pretty Nancy"?
7. Where does Didion say she felt she needed to be in the days following the Gambler's Anonymous meeting in "Getting Serenity"?
8. What does Didion say about objectivity 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. Describe the 22-year-old speaker in "Getting Serenity."
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