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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 the name of the casino where Maria runs into Benny Austin?
2. In the courtroom, Helene confirmed that the defendant, Carter Lang, had repeatedly _______and in other ways _________the plaintiff, Mrs. Maria Lang.
3. After running into Carter unexpectedly on the street in Beverly Hills, what does Maria imagine in the water that are "translucent as jellyfish"?
4. When Carter and Helene ask Maria questions at Neuropsychiatric, what three things does she answer about her plans for the future?
5. When Maria runs into Benny Austin at the casino, he tells her, the course of true love is never a straight ______.
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maria remember about meeting BZ for the first time and what does it foreshadow?
2. How does Maria prepare to meet Les in a hotel room and what happens when he arrives?
3. How does Maria get home from Vegas after being arrested and why is it significant?
4. What does Maria do when she runs into Benny Austin at the Flamingo and why?
5. What does Maria drop off at the doctor and why?
6. What is significant about Maria's meeting with Les Goodwin the day of her abortion?
7. Why does Carter want Maria to stay with him in the desert where he is shooting and what happens?
8. Why does Maria move out of her house in Beverly Hills to an apartment and what does it signify?
9. When Ivan Costello returns Maria's phone call, how does he behave and what does it signify?
10. Why do Carter and Helene assume that Maria had something to do with BZ's death and what are the consequences?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the setting of the novel.
1. What role does the setting have in relation to the plot?
2. What is the relationship between the landscape and character development?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss conflict in the novel.
1. What is Maria's conflict with herself?
2. What is Maria's conflict with her friends and family?
3. What is Maria's conflict with society?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss autobiographical elements in "Play It as It Lays". What aspects of Didion's life is portrayed in the novel.
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