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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Nancy's husband in "Pretty Nancy"?
2. Where is Alicia from "Alicia and the Underground Press" from?
3. What does Skip tell Joan he is not to be mistaken for despite having a beard in "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles"?
4. In "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice," Joan dates a man who aspires to be what?
5. How old is Nancy's son in "Pretty Nancy"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe Nancy Reagan's interaction with her son at the end of "Pretty Nancy"?
2. What does Didion say about objectivity in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
3. How does Didion describe the tone of the tour guides in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
4. What example does Joan use to express how much more difficult things have gotten regarding parents trying to ensure their children get into their college of choice?
5. Why does Didion say that the so-called underground papers she discusses in "Alicia" are not really underground?
6. In "A Trip to Xanadu," what is the castle people could see from Highway 1 and who built it?
7. What does Walter Davis say about his perspective on the war at the end of "Fathers, Sons, and Screaming Eagles"?
8. What does Nancy Reagan show Joan at the State Capital and what does she say about it?
9. What does Joan say about the "great adventure" the men who fought in the 1940s compared to their sons "great adventure" (40) in Vietnam?
10. What part of the meeting in "Getting Serenity does Didion find most unsettling and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay analyzing narrative voice in Joan Didion’s Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Choose a 2 - 3 essays to use as an example of Didion's narrative voice. Include thoughts on how the narrative voice effectively conveys the themes in each story.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay analyzing Didion's relationship with the written word. Use the following stories as reference: "Alicia and the Underground Press," "Why I Write," "Telling Stories," and "Last Words." Consider examples that show Didion's level of respect for the written word as well as her respect for other writers. Also, include why Didion herself writes and how she sees herself as a writer.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay analysis the theme of artist and subject in Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Reference "Pretty Nancy," "Some Women," and "Last Words" in your analysis.
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