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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Some Women," "The Long Distance Runner," "Last Words" Part I.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "Alicia and the Underground Press," what does Didion feel a reader can be sure of when the writer allows their bias to exist?
(a) You can be sure the writer will be dishonest.
(b) You can be sure the writer is unprofessional.
(c) You can be sure the writer will tell you what s/he truly thinks.
(d) You can be sure the writer's goal is to change your mind.

2. Where is Alicia from "Alicia and the Underground Press" from?
(a) Ann Arbor.
(b) Anchorage.
(c) Minneapolis.
(d) Detroit.

3. Though Didion agrees that writing in underground newspapers is often "amateurish and badly written," she disagrees with what sentiment?
(a) That they are boring.
(b) That they are unnecessary.
(c) That they are biased.
(d) That they are interesting.

4. What does Didion say she tried very hard to do while a student at Berkeley in "Why I Write"?
(a) Think clearly.
(b) Think like her professors.
(c) Think more realistically.
(d) Think in abstracts.

5. What does Didion say she has never read in an underground paper in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
(a) She says she has never read anything she needs to know.
(b) She says she has never read anything useless.
(c) She says she has never read anything political.
(d) She says she has never read anything well written.

Short Answer Questions

1. What tennis player's behavior did Richardson say was "glorious" accordion to Didion in "Long Distance Runner"?

2. What year did Tony Richardson die according to Didion in "Long Distance Runner"?

3. How old is the man who speaks second in "Getting Serenity" who states that the city has "destroyed" (23) him?

4. What is F. Scott Fitzgerald quoted as calling Hemingway in a letter to Maxwell Perkins in "Last Words"?

5. In "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice," Joan dates a man who aspires to be what?

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