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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Max feel he has removed frrm his life?

2. In which country was the film shot?

3. What is the name of this essay?

4. What does Didion say she sees John Wayne as at the end of this essay?

5. What can a couple of kids do easily in Las Vegas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What inconsistencies did the police find with Lucille's story?

2. How does Didion describe Las Vegas weddings?

3. Why is Joan Baez standing before the Monterey County Board of Supervisors?

4. How did John Wayne react to the problems on set?

5. What do you think is the overall message of this chapter?

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

7. Why did Didion choose Howard Hughes as her subject?

8. What were Didion's feelings when she met John Wayne for the first time?

9. Why did the two runaways leave home?

10. What is Didion's view on the center?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare one of Didion's early essays to one of her later essays. How do her ideas about life change? How has her writing style changed?

Essay Topic 2

What influence did the hippie movement have on the following areas:

1) Politics

2) Literature and art

3) Family

Essay Topic 3

Write a 500-word essay addressing the following statement: None of Didion's peers challenge her beliefs and, because of that, her essays do not express any new ideas.

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