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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Personals: On Keeping a Notebook.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what illness was Wayne diagnosed?
(a) Cancer
(b) Brain tumor
(c) Parkinson's
(d) AIDS

2. What type of building is the center?
(a) A shack
(b) A castle
(c) A tower
(d) A villa

3. What does Didion notice about the girl's appearance?
(a) She has no fingers
(b) She is pregnant
(c) She has no teeth
(d) She is wearing jeans and a t-shirt

4. What did Wayne promise to build his woman?
(a) A brick wall
(b) A white picket fence
(c) A rocking chair
(d) An outhouse

5. What is the only thing Michael talks about?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Bad habits
(c) Neo Stalinism
(d) Revolution

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Didion initially shocked that Wayne could develop cancer?

2. What does Didion think a notebook is not for?

3. Whose notebook writing does Didion talk about?

4. What have the workers been sent to sell?

5. What does Didion say she sees John Wayne as at the end of this essay?

(see the answer key)

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