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

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

3. What job did Didion's great-great-grandfather do in Hawaii?
(a) Policeman
(b) Chef
(c) Slave runner
(d) Teacher

4. What island does Didion visit in this essay?
(a) Hawaii
(b) Barbados
(c) The Virgin Islands
(d) Guernsey

5. Why does Hughes' building look abandoned?
(a) It is surrounded by police tape
(b) Tramps sleep on the front lawn
(c) Kids have sprayed it with graffiti
(d) The windows are boarded up

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?

2. What was Didion not elected to at college?

3. What does Didion say Hughes is?

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

5. How does Didion say she began to see herself?

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