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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. Where was the woman with the dirty wrapper sitting?
(a) On a park bench
(b) In a hotel bar
(c) In a restaurant
(d) Next to a water fountain

2. What does Didion compare Michael to when he talks to his workers?
(a) A dictator
(b) A manic depressive
(c) An army sergeant
(d) A tyrant

3. Upon what do the center's members think they have a large influence?
(a) The local district
(b) The political climate
(c) Hollywood
(d) NATO

4. What center does this essay address?
(a) The local sports center
(b) The Center of Democratic Institutions
(c) The Center of Capitalist Thought
(d) The Feminist Center for Abused Women

5. Baez carves her career as ______________.
(a) A politician
(b) A singer
(c) A writer
(d) A drummer

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tends to live in Newport Beach?

2. What was the whole area when Didion grew up there?

3. Whose notebook writing does Didion talk about?

4. What island does Didion visit in this essay?

5. What did Didion use to chase through the fields?

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