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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: The Seacoast of Despair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Didion try to speak to about the children?
(a) A priest
(b) A policeman
(c) A social worker
(d) Her father

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

3. What were occasionally written and published at the center?
(a) Books
(b) Busines statistics
(c) Essays
(d) Speeches

4. How does Didion describe Baez?
(a) Naive
(b) Strange
(c) A testosterone-fuelled woman
(d) As a lady

5. Who does Wayne have dinner with at the end of the chapter?
(a) Dean Martin
(b) Joan Didion
(c) John Ford
(d) Sammy Davis Jr

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Wayne promise to build his woman?

3. What does a person without self respect use his/her failings to do?

4. What is the name of this essay?

5. What is the title of this essay?

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