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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 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)?
2. What style of writing does Didion compare Alicia's underground piece to in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
3. Where in Las Vegas is the reunion Joan attends in "Fathers, Sons, Screaming Eagles"located?
4. How does Nancy's son get home from school in "Pretty Nancy"?
5. One of the meeting attendees, Frank L., has been going to meetings for six years and on the night Joan attended had not placed a bet in how long?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Didion say about objectivity in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
2. What does Joan say about the "great adventure" the men who fought in the 1940s compared to their sons "great adventure" (40) in Vietnam?
3. Describe the first female speaker in "Getting Serenity."
4. What does Didion say underground papers are able to do that conventional papers cannot in "Alicia and the Underground Press"?
5. In "A Trip to Xanadu," what is the castle people could see from Highway 1 and who built it?
6. In what way does the newsman in "Pretty Nancy" try to manipulate the moment to achieve his desired outcome?
7. What happened to Joan on April 25, 1952 in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice" and how did she react?
8. What is Joan doing at Nancy Reagan's home in "Pretty Nancy" and who else is there and why?
9. What does Walter Davis say about his perspective on the war at the end of "Fathers, Sons, and Screaming Eagles"?
10. What part of the meeting in "Getting Serenity does Didion find most unsettling and why?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay about the significance of Didion's Stanford rejection letter in "On Being Unchosen by the College of One's Choice." How did this rejection impact her in both the immediate and the long term? How does Didion feel about this "failure" early on in life?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay about Didion's feeling about the underground press in "Alicia and the Underground Press." Use direct examples from the story that show the reader her views.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay on the difference between a personal essay and a work of fiction. How might the reader be impacted differently for each genre? Why might a writer choose one over the other? Use examples from Let Me Tell You What I Mean to support your essay.
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