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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is this essay about?
(a) Morality
(b) Family
(c) Marriage
(d) Love
2. What island does Didion visit in this essay?
(a) The Virgin Islands
(b) Hawaii
(c) Barbados
(d) Guernsey
3. With what does Didion say Sacramento Valley's history started?
(a) The discovery of gold
(b) The discovery of diamonds
(c) The death of President Washington
(d) The discovery of dinosaur bones
4. What happens to people's temperaments just before the wind is about to blow?
(a) They become warmer
(b) They become dark
(c) They become manic
(d) They become funnier
5. Where did Didion grow up?
(a) Jacksonville
(b) New York City
(c) Raleigh
(d) Sacramento Valley
6. What was the whole area when Didion grew up there?
(a) Farmland
(b) Wasteland
(c) A series of skyscrapers
(d) Desert
7. What does this inccident define to Didion?
(a) Morality
(b) Human instinct
(c) Courage
(d) Humanity
8. What does the mother tell her brother?
(a) My child deserves everything he gets
(b) The monster needs company
(c) I cannot get the monster out of my mind
(d) The child finally has a friend
9. Who does Didion think the area excludes?
(a) Children
(b) Ethnic minorities
(c) Women
(d) Normal people
10. What happened when the gold was discovered?
(a) Mass immigration to the area
(b) Fights and murders
(c) A fort was built around the town
(d) A town was constructed
11. What did the monster do in the movie?
(a) Destroy a house
(b) Eat the Whitehouse
(c) Steal a child
(d) Eat a child
12. Which of the following does not live on the island?
(a) The caretaker's son
(b) The caretaker
(c) A retired merchant marine
(d) The caretaker's wife
13. Of what old adage does the area remind Didion?
(a) Money does not grow on trees
(b) It could be you
(c) Money can't buy happiness
(d) Money makes the world go round
14. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?
(a) Her mother
(b) Her brother
(c) Her uncle
(d) Her father
15. Where does Didion plan to go and relax?
(a) Jamaica
(b) Barbados
(c) Guaymas
(d) Canary Islands
Short Answer Questions
1. Why are no more repairs being done at the prison?
2. Why is Didion depressed in this essay?
3. What is the title of this essay?
4. What did Didion use to chase through the fields?
5. What does Didion feel trapped between when she visits her family?
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