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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?
(a) Soldier's ages
(b) How people react to death
(c) How Hawaii makes money from the memorial
(d) How the authorities perserve the memorial

2. What was the whole area when Didion grew up there?
(a) Wasteland
(b) Desert
(c) Farmland
(d) A series of skyscrapers

3. Where did Didion grow up?
(a) Raleigh
(b) Jacksonville
(c) New York City
(d) Sacramento Valley

4. Who tends to live in Newport Beach?
(a) Hippies
(b) Immigrants
(c) Rich Americans
(d) Artists

5. With whom does Didion celebrate her daughter's birthday?
(a) Her own friends
(b) Her daughter's friends
(c) Her family
(d) Her husband

6. Who does not like going to see Didion's family?
(a) Her daughter
(b) Her husband
(c) Her dog
(d) Her son

7. What did Didion use to chase through the fields?
(a) Cats
(b) Children
(c) Mice
(d) Dogs

8. Who remained with the young's man's body?
(a) The young girl
(b) A policeman
(c) The nurse's husband
(d) The nurse

9. Why do the parties become boring?
(a) The same people are always there
(b) Her friends stop attending
(c) They are held at the same places
(d) People don't move on

10. What do Didion and her husband drive through to get there?
(a) Coastal roads
(b) Mountains
(c) Desert
(d) Forests

11. Whose birthday does Didion celebrate?
(a) Her editor's
(b) Her best friend's
(c) Her father's
(d) Her daughter's

12. Where does Didion hear that an accident happened?
(a) In a nuclear reactor
(b) In a slaughthouse
(c) The mountains
(d) In a supermarket

13. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her uncle
(c) Her brother
(d) Her father

14. Where is the first memorial Didion visits in Hawaii?
(a) The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
(b) Pearl Harbor
(c) Washington
(d) Alcatraz

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the caretaker's job in the prison?

2. Why did the monster steal the child?

3. What city is Didion living in in this chapter?

4. What happens to people's temperaments just before the wind is about to blow?

5. Who happened upon the accident?

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