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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. Where are the cheap weddings advertised?
(a) Movie theaters
(b) Casinos
(c) Chapels
(d) The airport

2. What was the woman wearing in the note Didion remembers in this essay?
(a) A ballerina's costume
(b) A dirty wrapper
(c) A bikini
(d) A wedding dress

3. What do the young people do when they are on acid?
(a) Sit in silence
(b) Scream
(c) Run around naked
(d) Laugh

4. What was Didion raised to believe about other people?
(a) They are inherently bad
(b) They cannot be trusted
(c) They are inherently good
(d) They are more interesting than she

5. What have the workers been sent to sell?
(a) Pamphlets
(b) A magazine
(c) T-shirts
(d) Communist stickers

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Max feel he has removed frrm his life?

2. What is Howard Hughes said to be buying up?

3. What is Michael careful not to talk about?

4. Of which musician is this essay a portrait?

5. Whose notebook writing does Didion talk about?

(see the answer key)

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