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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What do Didion and her husband drive through to get there?
(a) Coastal roads
(b) Desert
(c) Mountains
(d) Forests
2. What does this inccident define to Didion?
(a) Humanity
(b) Human instinct
(c) Morality
(d) Courage
3. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?
(a) How the authorities perserve the memorial
(b) How Hawaii makes money from the memorial
(c) How people react to death
(d) Soldier's ages
4. Of what old adage does the area remind Didion?
(a) It could be you
(b) Money makes the world go round
(c) Money does not grow on trees
(d) Money can't buy happiness
5. Who happened upon the accident?
(a) A murderer
(b) A taxi driver
(c) A doctor
(d) A nurse
6. What does Didion find the island to be?
(a) A paradise
(b) Hell on earth
(c) A peaceful place
(d) A spiritual place
7. With whom does Didion celebrate her daughter's birthday?
(a) Her daughter's friends
(b) Her husband
(c) Her own friends
(d) Her family
8. What does Didion write about in this essay?
(a) Hollywood
(b) Morals
(c) Cooporations
(d) Finding the right person
9. What city is Didion living in in this chapter?
(a) Los Angeles
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) San Francisco
10. What was the whole area when Didion grew up there?
(a) Farmland
(b) Wasteland
(c) A series of skyscrapers
(d) Desert
11. Where does Didion use her charge card in order to eat?
(a) A department store
(b) A clothes store
(c) A supermarket
(d) A newspaper store
12. Why is Didion depressed in this essay?
(a) She has not had a holiday for three years
(b) Her husband is away
(c) She has the flu
(d) It is the rainy season in Los Angeles
13. What is the name of the wind Didion mentions in this essay?
(a) Santa Wencelas
(b) Santa Ana
(c) The Wicked Witch
(d) Diablo
14. Where does Didion hear that an accident happened?
(a) In a supermarket
(b) In a nuclear reactor
(c) The mountains
(d) In a slaughthouse
15. Who remained with the young's man's body?
(a) The nurse
(b) The young girl
(c) A policeman
(d) The nurse's husband
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of the following does not live on the island?
2. What does Didiion say increases in society when the winds are about to blow?
3. Who does Didion say the mother talks to about the kidnapping?
4. Where does Didion find a good job?
5. What does Didion think it is important for her daughter to have around her?
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