2. What is the title of this essay?
(a) I Come in Peace and You Go in Pieces
(b) Gods and Monsters
(c) I Can't Get That Monster Out of My Mind
(d) Oh Yeah!

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

4. What is the name of the wind Didion mentions in this essay?
(a) Santa Wencelas
(b) Santa Ana
(c) The Wicked Witch
(d) Diablo

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

6. What is Didion curious to see at the Pearl Harbor memorial?
(a) How the authorities perserve the memorial
(b) How Hawaii makes money from the memorial
(c) How people react to death
(d) Soldier's ages

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

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

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

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

11. What does Didion find the island to be?
(a) A peaceful place
(b) A spiritual place
(c) A paradise
(d) Hell on earth

12. To what state does Didion decide to move?
(a) Washington
(b) California
(c) Colorado
(d) Kentucky

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

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

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