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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 people are at the meeting Joan attends in "Getting Serenity?
(a) 25.
(b) 4.
(c) 12.
(d) 40.

2. 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.

3. Why is the first speaker in "Getting Serenity" unable to sleep when she returned home after 5 a.m.?
(a) Her kids needed breakfast.
(b) She was replaying her game in her head.
(c) It was too light out.
(d) She had to go to work.

4. From where does Didion receive a rejection letter in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice"?
(a) Harvard.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) UCLA.
(d) Berkeley.

5. In 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," how many applications does Joan say the private kindergarten her friend was trying to get her child into received?
(a) 90.
(b) 1000.
(c) 15.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Didion in "A Trip to Xanadu," in what year did San Simeon become a state monument?

2. What is the full name of the man Joan is speaking with at the start of "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles"?

3. What is Nancy's son's nickname in "Pretty Nancy"?

4. What type of meeting does Didion cover in "Getting Serenity"?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Didion describe the tone of the tour guides in "A Trip to Xanadu"?

3. What part of the meeting in "Getting Serenity does Didion find most unsettling and why?

4. 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"?

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

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

7. Where is Joan Didion in her essay "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles" (38)?

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

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

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

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