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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. Why is Didion unable to record people's reactions?
(a) She is overcome with grief
(b) She falls ill
(c) She loses her notebook
(d) She loses her pen

2. In what state is the center located?
(a) Colorado
(b) Texas
(c) New York
(d) California

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

4. What does the sixteen-year-old girl state about her own Las Vegas wedding?
(a) It was tacky and humiliating
(b) It was everything she could have imagined
(c) It was holy and beautiful
(d) It was quick and easy

5. Which of the following words does Didion use to describe self respect?
(a) Discipline
(b) Sacred
(c) Win
(d) Essential

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Hughes' generation expect men to keep?

2. What does Didion ask the reader in this essay?

3. What is the only thing Michael talks about?

4. Of what old adage does the area remind Didion?

5. Where is the bookstore?

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