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1. Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of the narrative.

Read this excerpt from "Goodbye to All That" by Joan Didion.

Part of what I want to tell you is what it is like to be young in New York, how six months can become eight years with the deceptive ease of a film dissolve, for that is how those years appear to me now, in a long sequence of sentimental dissolves and old-fashioned trick shots—the Seagram Building fountains dissolve into snowflakes, I enter a revolving door at twenty and come out a good deal older, and on a different street.

How does Joan Didion's extended metaphor of comparing her time in New York to a movie affect the tone of this excerpt?

It creates a romantic, reverential tone as Didion describes snapshots of her greatest triumphs in New York.

It creates a frank, objective tone as Didion focuses on her flaws and the failures she endured while in New York.

It creates a nostalgic, meditative tone as Didion reflects on how quickly her time in New York seemed to pass.

It creates a flippant, glib tone so Didion can convey how superficial and thoughtless she was when she lived in New York.

2. Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of the narrative.

Read this excerpt from "Goodbye to All That" by Joan Didion.

But to those of us who came from places where no one had heard of Lester Lanin and Grand Central Station was a Saturday radio program, where Wall Street and Fifth Avenue and Madison Avenue were not places at all but abstractions (“Money,” and “High Fashion,” and “The Hucksters”), New York was no mere city.

Which statement best explains the impact that the allusion to "The Hucksters," a Hollywood film set in New York, has on the meaning of the text?


It helps Didion convey the idea that her initial conception of New York City was based on intangible ideals and fictional depictions rather than concrete experiences and reality.

It allows Didion to highlight how much she—someone who actually lived in New York—differed from those who only experienced the city through idealized depictions in the movies.

It helps Didion express her sense that there was no difference between the New York presented in the movies and the one in which she and millions of other people lived.

It allows Didion to suggest that she was unique among those who came to New York from elsewhere because she alone had developed a mental picture of the city based on film depictions of it.

3. Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of the narrative.

In “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion says that when she lived in New York, she was “most comfortable in the company of Southerners” because they also viewed their time in New York as temporary.

Which textual detail does she include to illustrate their common shared experience?


She mentions that they all had a plane schedule in the drawer, ready to fly back to where they came from on short notice.


She recalls how they all hated New York and wanted to leave as soon as possible.


She notes that they all spoke differently than New Yorkers.


She describes how they all had a difficult time finding their way in New York when they first arrived