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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her father
(c) Her brother
(d) Her uncle
2. What does this inccident define to Didion?
(a) Human instinct
(b) Morality
(c) Courage
(d) Humanity
3. What does Didion write about in this essay?
(a) Cooporations
(b) Finding the right person
(c) Hollywood
(d) Morals
4. Where does Didion hear that an accident happened?
(a) In a nuclear reactor
(b) In a slaughthouse
(c) The mountains
(d) In a supermarket
5. To what state does Didion decide to move?
(a) Colorado
(b) California
(c) Washington
(d) Kentucky
6. What was the caretaker's job in the prison?
(a) A cook
(b) Caretaker
(c) A guard
(d) Warden
7. With what does Didion say Sacramento Valley's history started?
(a) The discovery of diamonds
(b) The discovery of gold
(c) The discovery of dinosaur bones
(d) The death of President Washington
8. What is the name of the wind Didion mentions in this essay?
(a) Santa Wencelas
(b) The Wicked Witch
(c) Diablo
(d) Santa Ana
9. Why do the parties become boring?
(a) People don't move on
(b) The same people are always there
(c) They are held at the same places
(d) Her friends stop attending
10. What does Didion think about as she explores the island?
(a) The history of the prisoners
(b) Her daughter
(c) The rare birds
(d) Her grandfather
11. What was the whole area when Didion grew up there?
(a) Farmland
(b) A series of skyscrapers
(c) Wasteland
(d) Desert
12. What happened when the gold was discovered?
(a) A town was constructed
(b) A fort was built around the town
(c) Fights and murders
(d) Mass immigration to the area
13. What does Didiion say increases in society when the winds are about to blow?
(a) Study
(b) Shopping
(c) Road rage
(d) Crime
14. Who happened upon the accident?
(a) A doctor
(b) A murderer
(c) A taxi driver
(d) A nurse
15. With whom does Didion go on the holiday?
(a) Her best friend
(b) Her daughter
(c) Her boyfriend
(d) Her husband
Short Answer Questions
1. Who remained with the young's man's body?
2. Who does Didion think the area excludes?
3. Didion states that the Donner party reverted to _______________________.
4. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?
5. Where did Didion grow up?
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