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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does this inccident define to Didion?
(a) Humanity
(b) Courage
(c) Human instinct
(d) Morality
2. Didion states that the Donner party reverted to _______________________.
(a) Animal instincts
(b) Cavemen
(c) A primitive state of moral thought
(d) The depths of human evil
3. Of what old adage does the area remind Didion?
(a) Money can't buy happiness
(b) Money makes the world go round
(c) It could be you
(d) Money does not grow on trees
4. What city is Didion living in in this chapter?
(a) San Francisco
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Los Angeles
5. About whom does the nighttime talk show host talk?
(a) Brian Wilson
(b) Helen Gurley Brown
(c) Germaine Greer
(d) Helen Keller
6. To what state does Didion decide to move?
(a) Washington
(b) Kentucky
(c) Colorado
(d) California
7. What did the monster do in the movie?
(a) Eat a child
(b) Eat the Whitehouse
(c) Destroy a house
(d) Steal a child
8. In what type of accommodation do Didion and her husband stay?
(a) A motel
(b) A villa
(c) A cabin
(d) A hotel
9. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?
(a) How people react to death
(b) How Hawaii makes money from the memorial
(c) How the authorities perserve the memorial
(d) Soldier's ages
10. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?
(a) Her father
(b) Her brother
(c) Her uncle
(d) Her mother
11. Didion's family refers to her husband as __________________.
(a) Sweat pit
(b) Mr. Irony
(c) Joan's husband
(d) The penguin
12. What do Didion and her husband drive through to get there?
(a) Coastal roads
(b) Forests
(c) Mountains
(d) Desert
13. What did Didion use to chase through the fields?
(a) Children
(b) Mice
(c) Cats
(d) Dogs
14. Why did the monster steal the child?
(a) To mate with it
(b) To befriend it
(c) To brainwash it
(d) To eat it
15. What job did Didion's great-great-grandfather do in Hawaii?
(a) Chef
(b) Slave runner
(c) Policeman
(d) Teacher
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the title of this essay?
2. Who does Didion think the area excludes?
3. Whose birthday does Didion celebrate?
4. What does Didion think about as she explores the island?
5. With whom does Didion celebrate her daughter's birthday?
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