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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 did Hughes' generation expect men to keep?
(a) Their virginity
(b) Their jobs
(c) Their privacy
(d) Their wives

2. What does Didion think she lost when she was not elected Phi Beta Kappa?
(a) Her morals
(b) Her innocence
(c) Her self respect
(d) Her love of life

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

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

5. What does a person with self respect use their failings to do?
(a) Help others
(b) Succeed
(c) Put people down
(d) Market his/her image

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Howard Hughes said to be buying up?

2. What was Didion not elected to at college?

3. What ability does Didion think she lost when she lost her innocence?

4. What does Didion begin to wonder?

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

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