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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) A rumor about Hughes
(b) Arguments from Hughes' house
(c) Music from Hughes house
(d) Hughes' name

2. What does a person without self respect use his/her failings to do?
(a) Become nothing
(b) Excuse his/her failure
(c) Put others down
(d) Hide his/her shame

3. What was Hughes' job in the film industry?
(a) Script writer
(b) Stunt man
(c) Director
(d) Producer

4. What ability does Didion think she lost when she lost her innocence?
(a) To deceive herself
(b) To write poetry
(c) To fall in love
(d) To do what she pleased

5. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?
(a) How the authorities perserve the memorial
(b) How Hawaii makes money from the memorial
(c) How people react to death
(d) Soldier's ages

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Didion's great-great-grandfather do in Hawaii?

2. What was Hughes said to have called his business associates?

3. What is the name of the street Hughes lives on?

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

5. Didion believe her loss of innocence was the beginning of ____________.

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