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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Didion think about as she explores the island?
(a) The history of the prisoners
(b) Her grandfather
(c) Her daughter
(d) The rare birds

2. Where is the first memorial Didion visits in Hawaii?
(a) Washington
(b) Pearl Harbor
(c) The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
(d) Alcatraz

3. What does Didion write about in this essay?
(a) Cooporations
(b) Finding the right person
(c) Morals
(d) Hollywood

4. To what state does Didion decide to move?
(a) California
(b) Kentucky
(c) Colorado
(d) Washington

5. Didion states that the Donner party reverted to _______________________.
(a) Cavemen
(b) The depths of human evil
(c) A primitive state of moral thought
(d) Animal instincts

6. What happened when the gold was discovered?
(a) A town was constructed
(b) Mass immigration to the area
(c) A fort was built around the town
(d) Fights and murders

7. What does Didion find the island to be?
(a) Hell on earth
(b) A paradise
(c) A peaceful place
(d) A spiritual place

8. Whose birthday does Didion celebrate?
(a) Her best friend's
(b) Her father's
(c) Her daughter's
(d) Her editor's

9. What does Didion find on the island?
(a) Copland
(b) Peace and harmony
(c) Gangland
(d) The excesses of wealth

10. What does the mother tell her brother?
(a) The child finally has a friend
(b) I cannot get the monster out of my mind
(c) My child deserves everything he gets
(d) The monster needs company

11. Why does Didion never tell her family about her struggles?
(a) They can't even afford to eat
(b) She wants to cope on her own
(c) She does not want to worry them
(d) She has lost their number

12. Where does Didion hear that an accident happened?
(a) In a nuclear reactor
(b) The mountains
(c) In a slaughthouse
(d) In a supermarket

13. Who does not like going to see Didion's family?
(a) Her daughter
(b) Her dog
(c) Her husband
(d) Her son

14. Why is Didion unable to record people's reactions?
(a) She loses her pen
(b) She falls ill
(c) She is overcome with grief
(d) She loses her notebook

15. What does Didiion say increases in society when the winds are about to blow?
(a) Shopping
(b) Crime
(c) Study
(d) Road rage

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Didion plan to go and relax?

2. Why did the monster steal the child?

3. Where was the gold discovered?

4. Where does Didion find a good job?

5. What city is Didion living in in this chapter?

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