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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What charity does Lucille chair?
(a) MIND
(b) The Heart Fund
(c) The Cancer Fund
(d) The AIDS Trust

2. What kind of trip does Barbara say she is on?
(a) A people's trip
(b) A woman's trip
(c) A life trip
(d) A love trip

3. What is the woman's name?
(a) Lucille Miller
(b) Honor Lorraine
(c) Jackie Didion
(d) Anne Toberlone

4. What happens when Didion looks back at the notes she has written?
(a) She can't remember what they refer to
(b) She feels creative and starts to write
(c) She cannot stop reading them
(d) She becomes nostalgic and cries

5. What does the sixteen-year-old girl state about her own Las Vegas wedding?
(a) It was holy and beautiful
(b) It was everything she could have imagined
(c) It was tacky and humiliating
(d) It was quick and easy

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state is the center located?

2. In which country was the film shot?

3. What does Didion begin to wonder?

4. What happened to the car when it crashed?

5. What kind of world will a person live in without self respect?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Lucille tell the police happened on October 7, 1964?

2. Why is Didion unsuccessful in speaking to the Malakoff Diggers?

3. How does Max live his life as a hippie?

4. How has Las Vegas turned marriage into a big business?

5. Describe Lucille Miller's life at the beginning of Part 1.

6. What makes Michael a difficult interviewee?

7. What is Didion's opinion of John Wayne?

8. How did not being elected to Phi Beta Kappa in college affect Didion?

9. What conclusion does Didion come to in the Howard Hughes essay?

10. Why was Cork Miller unhappy?

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