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

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

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

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

5. What does Didion think it is important for her daughter to have around her?
(a) Positive energy
(b) Presents
(c) Love
(d) Extended family

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Didion hear that an accident happened?

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

3. Where does Didion find a good job?

4. What does Didion find on the island?

5. What does the mother tell her brother?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the theme of this essay?

2. What are Didion's thoughts about the island?

3. In what way does Newport Beach disappoint Didion?

4. Describe Didion's time in Guaymas.

5. Why does Didion think no one can truly define what is moral?

6. How do the scientists think the Santa Ana winds work to cause psychological changes?

7. Summarize the book.

8. How does Didion feel when visiting Pearl Harbor?

9. What does Didion think of Newport Beach?

10. Describe the accident in the mountains.

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