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

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

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

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

6. Who does Didion think the area excludes?
(a) Women
(b) Children
(c) Ethnic minorities
(d) Normal people

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

8. Where does Didion visit in this essay?
(a) Coney Island
(b) Paris
(c) Brooklyn
(d) Newport Beach

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

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

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

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

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

14. What was the whole area when Didion grew up there?
(a) Wasteland
(b) Farmland
(c) A series of skyscrapers
(d) Desert

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