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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Alicia and the Underground Press," "Getting Serenity," "A Trip to Xanadu" .

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of meeting does Didion cover in "Getting Serenity"?
(a) Alcoholic's Anonymous.
(b) Gambler's Anonymous.
(c) Narcotic's Anonymous.
(d) AlAnon.

2. Who built the castle Didion discusses in "A Trip to Xanadu"?
(a) Henry Ford.
(b) Orson Welles.
(c) William Randolph Hearst.
(d) William Butler Yeats.

3. What is one of the newspapers that the author lists as one of the few that do not make her feel as though "the oxygen has been cut off from [her] brain tissue" (20)?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) The San Francisco Chronicle.
(d) The EastSide Reporter.

4. Where does Didion say she used to eavesdrop on people's conversations thinking "it was a good way to learn about life" (23) in "Getting Serenity"?
(a) Restaurants.
(b) The Greyhound.
(c) The Post Office.
(d) The Airport.

5. Didion uses and example from what underground paper at the end of her essay "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
(a) The Wall Street Journal.
(b) The Free Press.
(c) The East Village Voice.
(d) The Berkeley Barb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What style of writing does Didion compare Alicia's underground piece to in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?

2. Though Didion agrees that writing in underground newspapers is often "amateurish and badly written," she disagrees with what sentiment?

3. Where did the second speaker in "Getting Serenity" first start gambling?

4. In what branch of the army was the second speaker in "Getting Serenity"?

5. In "Alicia and the Underground Press," what does Didion feel a reader can be sure of when the writer allows their bias to exist?

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