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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Letter from Paradise, 21' 19' N., 157' 52' W..

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Didion say she hears almost daily?
(a) Arguments from Hughes' house
(b) A rumor about Hughes
(c) Music from Hughes house
(d) Hughes' name

2. In what city does Hughes live?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Chicago
(c) Los Angeles
(d) New York

3. What was Didion not elected to at college?
(a) Basketball coach
(b) Chess master
(c) President
(d) Phi Beta Kappa

4. What kind of world will a person live in without self respect?
(a) A world where only their failings matter
(b) A world where one only hears the screams of the evil dead
(c) A world without love
(d) A world of anger and pain

5. What is Howard Hughes said to be buying up?
(a) The New York Times
(b) Hollywood
(c) Las Vegas
(d) The KGB

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a person with self respect use their failings to do?

2. What was Hughes' job in the film industry?

3. Which of the following words does Didion use to describe self respect?

4. What island does Didion visit in this essay?

5. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?

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