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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who happened upon the accident?
(a) A doctor
(b) A taxi driver
(c) A murderer
(d) A nurse

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

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

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

5. What happens to people's temperaments just before the wind is about to blow?
(a) They become manic
(b) They become dark
(c) They become funnier
(d) They become warmer

6. Didion's family refers to her husband as __________________.
(a) Joan's husband
(b) The penguin
(c) Mr. Irony
(d) Sweat pit

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

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

9. What city is Didion living in in this chapter?
(a) San Francisco
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Los Angeles

10. What happened when the gold was discovered?
(a) A fort was built around the town
(b) A town was constructed
(c) Mass immigration to the area
(d) Fights and murders

11. Of what old adage does the area remind Didion?
(a) It could be you
(b) Money can't buy happiness
(c) Money does not grow on trees
(d) Money makes the world go round

12. What does Didion feel trapped between when she visits her family?
(a) Her daughter and her family
(b) Her husband and her family
(c) Her daughter and her son
(d) Her daughter and her husband

13. Where does Didion use her charge card in order to eat?
(a) A department store
(b) A supermarket
(c) A newspaper store
(d) A clothes store

14. What does Didion write about in this essay?
(a) Finding the right person
(b) Cooporations
(c) Hollywood
(d) Morals

15. What does Didion find on the island?
(a) The excesses of wealth
(b) Gangland
(c) Peace and harmony
(d) Copland

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do surgeons refuse to operate during this time?

2. Why are no more repairs being done at the prison?

3. With whom does Didion celebrate her daughter's birthday?

4. Which of the following does not live on the island?

5. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?

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