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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Didion think about as she explores the island?
(a) The rare birds
(b) Her daughter
(c) The history of the prisoners
(d) Her grandfather

2. With whom does Didion celebrate her daughter's birthday?
(a) Her own friends
(b) Her family
(c) Her daughter's friends
(d) Her husband

3. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?
(a) Her uncle
(b) Her father
(c) Her brother
(d) Her mother

4. Where does Didion find a good job?
(a) In a shoe store
(b) On a magazine
(c) On a newspaper
(d) In Walmart

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

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

7. What do Didion and her husband drive through to get there?
(a) Coastal roads
(b) Desert
(c) Forests
(d) Mountains

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

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

10. What does Didiion say increases in society when the winds are about to blow?
(a) Study
(b) Shopping
(c) Crime
(d) Road rage

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

12. What is this essay about?
(a) Love
(b) Morality
(c) Marriage
(d) Family

13. Who remained with the young's man's body?
(a) The nurse's husband
(b) The nurse
(c) A policeman
(d) The young girl

14. Why did the monster steal the child?
(a) To eat it
(b) To befriend it
(c) To brainwash it
(d) To mate with it

15. What job did Didion's great-great-grandfather do in Hawaii?
(a) Slave runner
(b) Teacher
(c) Chef
(d) Policeman

Short Answer Questions

1. Who happened upon the accident?

2. Where is the first memorial Didion visits in Hawaii?

3. With whom does Didion go on the holiday?

4. What did the monster do in the movie?

5. Who does Didion say the mother talks to about the kidnapping?

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