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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Didion think a notebook is not for?
(a) To read at weddings
(b) To share
(c) To write novels
(d) To keep a factual record

2. Why does Didion think she wrote the note about the woman?
(a) To remember the woman
(b) To write a story
(c) To remember the way she felt
(d) To remember the day

3. In what state does this essay take place?
(a) Texas
(b) California
(c) New York
(d) Colorado

4. What did Lucille and Cork go to the shop to buy?
(a) Raisons
(b) Milk
(c) Medicine
(d) Chocolate

5. What is the title of this essay?
(a) California Dreaming
(b) Kalifornia
(c) California Girls
(d) Surfing in the USSR

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of this essay?

2. Baez carves her career as ______________.

3. What charity does Lucille chair?

4. What does Didion witness a group of young people doing?

5. How does Didion describe Baez?

(see the answer key)

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