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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Seven Places of the Mind: The Seacoast of Despair.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Baez's neighbors believe the school has done?
(a) Attracted bad elements
(b) Attracted too many tourists
(c) Raised property values
(d) Brought down property value

2. What does Didion say comes with self respect?
(a) Power
(b) Love and family
(c) Friends
(d) Happiness and success

3. Why does Hughes' building look abandoned?
(a) The windows are boarded up
(b) Kids have sprayed it with graffiti
(c) Tramps sleep on the front lawn
(d) It is surrounded by police tape

4. What happens when Didion looks back at the notes she has written?
(a) She cannot stop reading them
(b) She can't remember what they refer to
(c) She becomes nostalgic and cries
(d) She feels creative and starts to write

5. What does Didion begin to wonder?
(a) Why Hughes has boarded his windows
(b) Why Hughes is a recluse
(c) Why people are curious about Hughes
(d) How Hughes ever became famous

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Didion visit in this essay?

2. What does Didion want to find in San Francisco?

3. What have the workers been sent to sell?

4. What does this inccident define to Didion?

5. Whose birthday does Didion celebrate?

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