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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

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) As still a child
(d) The way others did

2. What did Lucille use to try and free her husband?
(a) A metal rod
(b) A spade
(c) A stick
(d) A plank of wood

3. Why does Hughes' building look abandoned?
(a) Tramps sleep on the front lawn
(b) It is surrounded by police tape
(c) The windows are boarded up
(d) Kids have sprayed it with graffiti

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

5. What does Didion say she hears almost daily?
(a) Music from Hughes house
(b) A rumor about Hughes
(c) Arguments from Hughes' house
(d) Hughes' name

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

7. What was the name of John Wayne's wife?
(a) Fornetta
(b) Anita
(c) Pilar
(d) Lauren

8. What is the name of the building where Didion spends time?
(a) The Warehouse
(b) Rainbow Palace
(c) People's Place
(d) Evolution

9. What does the center provide?
(a) A place for business men to relax
(b) A place for people to discuss important issues
(c) A place for writers to work
(d) A place for people to hide form the law

10. What does Didion dismiss the center as?
(a) A swingers club
(b) A country club
(c) A brothel
(d) A night school

11. With what was Cork Miller having problems?
(a) His parents
(b) His health
(c) Money
(d) His ex-wife

12. Baez known as the voice of _____________________.
(a) The protest movement
(b) Native Americans
(c) African Americans
(d) America's youth

13. What is the only thing Michael talks about?
(a) Neo Stalinism
(b) Capitalism
(c) Bad habits
(d) Revolution

14. What do many people still take care doing even for a Las Vegas wedding?
(a) Wedding plans
(b) Prenuptial agreements
(c) Keeping their virginity
(d) Honeymoon

15. On what subject does Baez's school concentrate?
(a) Non-violence
(b) Buddhism
(c) Politics
(d) Music

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Didion try to speak to about the children?

2. Why does Didion think she wrote the note about the woman?

3. What is the title of this essay?

4. What kind of people meet at the center?

5. Who does Didion watch Michael debrief?

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