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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Personals: On Morality.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the title of this essay?
(a) Madness
(b) Marrying Absurd
(c) Marrying a Gorilla
(d) False Vows

2. What is Didion's opinion of Las Vegas weddings?
(a) Cheap and absurd
(b) A young person's game
(c) Cruel
(d) Atheist

3. What is the title of the second part of the book?
(a) Life
(b) Personals
(c) Willing Life
(d) A Distant Darkness

4. On what subject does Baez's school concentrate?
(a) Non-violence
(b) Buddhism
(c) Politics
(d) Music

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does this inccident define to Didion?

2. What does Didion say she hears almost daily?

3. Why does Didion say she writes notes?

4. What does the sixteen-year-old girl state about her own Las Vegas wedding?

5. Of which musician is this essay a portrait?

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