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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why are no more repairs being done at the prison?
(a) There are not enough employers
(b) They want it to fall down
(c) It is has too many bad memories
(d) It is too expensive to maintain

2. What did the monster do in the movie?
(a) Eat a child
(b) Destroy a house
(c) Eat the Whitehouse
(d) Steal a child

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

4. What does Didion feel trapped between when she visits her family?
(a) Her daughter and her husband
(b) Her husband and her family
(c) Her daughter and her son
(d) Her daughter and her family

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

6. Why did the monster steal the child?
(a) To mate with it
(b) To eat it
(c) To brainwash it
(d) To befriend it

7. Of what old adage does the area remind Didion?
(a) Money makes the world go round
(b) Money does not grow on trees
(c) Money can't buy happiness
(d) It could be you

8. With whom does Didion celebrate her daughter's birthday?
(a) Her daughter's friends
(b) Her family
(c) Her husband
(d) Her own friends

9. Who happened upon the accident?
(a) A murderer
(b) A taxi driver
(c) A nurse
(d) A doctor

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

11. Where does Didion plan to go and relax?
(a) Jamaica
(b) Guaymas
(c) Canary Islands
(d) Barbados

12. What does the wind increase the presence of in the atmosphere?
(a) Positive ions
(b) H20
(c) Carbon monoxide
(d) Negative ions

13. Which of the following does not live on the island?
(a) A retired merchant marine
(b) The caretaker's son
(c) The caretaker's wife
(d) The caretaker

14. Why do surgeons refuse to operate during this time?
(a) Patients go crazy
(b) Anaesthetic does not work
(c) The electricity goes out
(d) Patients tend to bleed

15. Which member of Didion's family went to Hawaii during the war?
(a) Her father
(b) Her brother
(c) Her mother
(d) Her uncle

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Didion been told to expect?

2. Where does Didion find a good job?

3. What happens to people's temperaments just before the wind is about to blow?

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

5. What do Didion and her husband drive through to get there?

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