Let Me Tell You What I Mean Test | Final Test - Easy

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Let Me Tell You What I Mean Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tony Richardson begin doing years before his death for "something to do" between film shoots?
(a) Working on a TV script.
(b) Writing a collection of short stories.
(c) Painting.
(d) Writing a memoir.

2. Didion says that one of the pictures in her mind when she began her novel Play it as It Lays came from an incident in what city?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Las Vegas.
(d) New York.

3. Which friend of Hemingway and his wife does Didion mention at the start of "Last Words"?
(a) Pauline.
(b) Peggy.
(c) Polly.
(d) Pam.

4. What did Mary Hemingway allow Carlos Baker to do in his book published after Hemingway's death?
(a) Write disparagingly of Hemingway.
(b) Publish his unedited manuscript.
(c) Publish 600 of his letters.
(d) Rewrite his most famous novels.

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

6. At the start of "Why I Write," Didion says that "writing is the act of saying" (42) what?
(a) They.
(b) We.
(c) I.
(d) You.

7. What tennis player's behavior did Richardson say was "glorious" accordion to Didion in "Long Distance Runner"?
(a) Andre Agassi.
(b) Serena Williams.
(c) John McEnroe.
(d) Arthur Ashe.

8. What is F. Scott Fitzgerald quoted as calling Hemingway in a letter to Maxwell Perkins in "Last Words"?
(a) An okay writer.
(b) A rising talent.
(c) A real hack.
(d) The real thing.

9. In "Some Women," Didion says that Mapplethorpe's photograph always exhibit a tension between what?
(a) Light and dark.
(b) Good and bad.
(c) Right and wrong.
(d) Masculine and feminine.

10. What mandatory class did Didion need to take at Berkeley before she could graduate?
(a) Milton.
(b) Chaucer.
(c) Hemingway.
(d) Shakespeare.

11. In "Long Distance Runner," where is Richardson filiming in 1989?
(a) France.
(b) America.
(c) Spain.
(d) New Zealand.

12. Where did Hemingway shoot himself in 1961?
(a) Havana.
(b) Africa.
(c) Key West.
(d) Ketchum, Idaho.

13. In "Some Women," what word is Mapplethorpe said to dislike regarding his art?
(a) Boring.
(b) Shocking.
(c) Outrageous.
(d) Unexpected.

14. In "Long Distance Runner," what word does Didion say Richardson often used when describing work?
(a) Magic.
(b) Serene.
(c) Holy.
(d) Impossible.

15. In "Telling Stories," what does Didion attribute to why she got a B in English 106A?
(a) Her excellent writing.
(b) Her teacher's kindness and understanding.
(c) Her class participation.
(d) Her teacher's disorganization.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is something Didion felt her classmates in English 106A had that she did not in "Telling Stories"?

2. Who wrote the script for "Hills Like White Elephants" discussed in "Long Distance Runner"?

3. In "Why I Write," Didion says that the image that played into her story the most in Book of Common Prayer came from when she was at an airport in which country?

4. In "Some Women," what writer does Didion say is quoted as saying that talking about his novel was bad luck?

5. In "Telling Stories," what does Didion say she did in English 106A to make herself invisible in class?

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