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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Didion never tell her family about her struggles?
(a) She wants to cope on her own
(b) They can't even afford to eat
(c) She has lost their number
(d) She does not want to worry them

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

3. What has Didion been told to expect?
(a) The finest restaurants in the country
(b) Incredible architecture and eclectic homes
(c) State-of-the-art technology
(d) Excesses of wealth

4. Which of the following does not live on the island?
(a) The caretaker's son
(b) A retired merchant marine
(c) The caretaker's wife
(d) The caretaker

5. Who does Didion say the mother talks to about the kidnapping?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her sister
(c) Her brother
(d) Her father

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

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

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

9. Where does Didion visit in this essay?
(a) Hawaii
(b) London
(c) New York
(d) Alcatraz

10. What does the wind increase the presence of in the atmosphere?
(a) Carbon monoxide
(b) Negative ions
(c) Positive ions
(d) H20

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

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

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

14. What does the mother tell her brother?
(a) The child finally has a friend
(b) The monster needs company
(c) I cannot get the monster out of my mind
(d) My child deserves everything he gets

15. When do Didion and her husband decide to go home?
(a) When their car breaks down
(b) When they run out of money
(c) When they get restless
(d) When Didion gets a cold

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Didion's family refers to her husband as __________________.

3. With whom does Didion go on the holiday?

4. About whom does the nighttime talk show host talk?

5. What is the name of the wind Didion mentions in this essay?

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