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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: Los Angeles Notebook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Didion say she began to see herself?
(a) As a product of her parents
(b) As an adult
(c) The way others did
(d) As still a child

2. What does Didion find on the island?
(a) Copland
(b) The excesses of wealth
(c) Gangland
(d) Peace and harmony

3. What does Didion say Hughes is?
(a) A scared man
(b) A social failure
(c) A private man
(d) A schizophrenic

4. What happened to the car when it crashed?
(a) It sank into the lake
(b) It caught fire
(c) It exploded
(d) It lay with one half over a cliff edge

5. Didion states that the Donner party reverted to _______________________.
(a) Cavemen
(b) A primitive state of moral thought
(c) Animal instincts
(d) The depths of human evil

Short Answer Questions

1. Of which musician is this essay a portrait?

2. What does Didiion say increases in society when the winds are about to blow?

3. Who does Didion overhear talking about Las Vegas weddings?

4. What do Didion and her husband drive through to get there?

5. Baez carves her career as ______________.

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