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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is BJ's profession?
(a) Consulate secretary.
(b) Intelligence analyst.
(c) Airplane mechanic.
(d) Field journalist.

2. Which character conspicuously disappears to attend Carole Christian at Janet's wedding?
(a) Inez Victor.
(b) Paul Christian.
(c) Janet Ziegler.
(d) Harry Victor.

3. In what city do Janet and Dick Ziegler's children go to school?
(a) New York.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Amherst.
(d) San Francisco.

4. When explaining to her father how he is not poor, what does Inez tell him he is not?
(a) A heroin addict.
(b) A Cambodian orphan.
(c) A Mexican tomato picker.
(d) A southern tenant farmer.

5. What adjective does Billy Dillon use to describe Jessie's situation?
(a) Inevitable.
(b) Funny.
(c) Sensitive.
(d) Perfect.

6. In Chapter 11, what does Dick Ziegler tell Dwight Christian not to say?
(a) Wendell Omura deserved to get shot.
(b) Janet is dying.
(c) His children will not come to Hawaii.
(d) The war cannot be won.

7. What patriotic song is played on a loop on radios after the Bing Crosby signal?
(a) America the Beautiful.
(b) Stars and Stripes Forever.
(c) A Yankee Doodle Medley.
(d) Battle Hymn of the Republic.

8. What is Jack Lovett's primary concern regarding Jessie Victor's situation?
(a) She is not on any evacuation list.
(b) She does not have a passport.
(c) She does not speak Vietnamese.
(d) She has access to opium dens.

9. How does Didion describe Lovett's attitude toward the countries he represents?
(a) Immaterial.
(b) Loyal.
(c) Abstract.
(d) Disdainful.

10. What Bing Crosby song will play on the radio to announce Saigon's evacuation?
(a) Don't Fence Me In.
(b) Swinging On a Star.
(c) I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas.
(d) Blue Skies.

11. What does Inez suspect is happening throughout the Pacific as Jack Lovett's body is transported?
(a) 21-gun salutes.
(b) Indigenous women trying to call his hotel room.
(c) Paper-shredding.
(d) Champagne bottles popping.

12. In what European city does Harry Victor now spend most of his time?
(a) Paris.
(b) Brussels.
(c) Copenhagen.
(d) West Berlin.

13. When various agencies gather to discuss the process of evacuating Saigon, what do they neglect to bring?
(a) A list of evacuees.
(b) A map of Saigon.
(c) An interpreter.
(d) A military advisor.

14. In what London periodical is Inez quoted about refugees?
(a) The Daily Mirror.
(b) The Times.
(c) The Guardian.
(d) The Economist.

15. What reason does Jessie give Harry for not wanting to go to Janet's funeral?
(a) She cannot leave the state of Washington.
(b) She barely knew Janet.
(c) She doesn't attend funerals.
(d) Mourning is a bourgeois activity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word does Didion use to describe the state in which she finds Inez Victor in Kuala Lumpur?

2. How does Ruthie Christian busy herself in Chapter 7?

3. Who spreads the news throughout Dwight Christian's office that Paul Christian is destitute?

4. In what US satellite is Dick Ziegler when his wife is shot?

5. Which of the following is not an assumption Inez makes about the owner of the room in which she stays in Hong Kong?

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