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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What can a couple of kids do easily in Las Vegas?
(a) Get jobs
(b) Buy guns
(c) Get married
(d) Find drugs

2. In which city is the Communist Party's headquarters?
(a) San Francisco
(b) Los Angeles
(c) Chicago
(d) New York

3. With whom is Didion initially told to speak?
(a) Deadeye
(b) Arrowhead
(c) Jack Bean
(d) Mike

4. Who of the following did not star in The Sons of Katie Elder?
(a) John Wayne
(b) Peter Fonda
(c) Dean Martin
(d) Dennis Hopper

5. In what state is the center located?
(a) Texas
(b) California
(c) New York
(d) Colorado

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

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

8. What does Didion want to learn about?
(a) Communist literature
(b) The communist party
(c) Michael
(d) The Soviet Union

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

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

11. What is the name of the street the woman is walking down in this chapter?
(a) Banyan
(b) Locket
(c) Elm
(d) Throw Away

12. What does Didion notice about the girl's appearance?
(a) She is pregnant
(b) She has no fingers
(c) She is wearing jeans and a t-shirt
(d) She has no teeth

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

14. What does Lucille's husband do for a living?
(a) Doctor
(b) Lumberjack
(c) Mechanic
(d) Dentist

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Didion's opinion of Las Vegas weddings?

2. Where are the cheap weddings advertised?

3. Why could Didion not become Phi Beta Kappa?

4. What reason do the two runaways give for leaving home?

5. What kind of people meet at the center?

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