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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of tree does Dorothy drive into, crashing her car?
(a) A banyan tree.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) An oak tree.
(d) A linden tree.

2. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get re-engaged, what show are they performing in?
(a) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(b) You Can't Take It with You.
(c) Macbeth.
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

3. Where does Patricia Westerford go to college?
(a) Berkeley University.
(b) University of California Los Angeles.
(c) Eastern Kentucky University.
(d) DePaul University.

4. Who discovered Olivia after she had been electrocuted?
(a) Mark.
(b) Davy.
(c) Jack.
(d) Roger.

5. What kind of tree was Daphne turned into just before Apollo caught her?
(a) A bay laurel tree.
(b) A white pine tree.
(c) A weeping willow tree.
(d) A sugar maple tree.

6. Where does John Hoel send his film to be developed after buying his first camera?
(a) New York.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Des Moines.
(d) Chicago.

7. Where does Olivia stop at the world's largest truck stop along her journey?
(a) Texas.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Oklahoma.

8. Where does Douglas Pavlicek caretake for a ranch?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Texas.
(d) Utah.

9. By what month are Jorben Hoel and his wife U.S. citizens, according to the narrator in "Nicholas Hoel"?
(a) January.
(b) June.
(c) February.
(d) April.

10. Where does the chestnut tree blight begin, according to the author in "Nicholas Hoel"?
(a) The St. Louis Zoo.
(b) The Audubon Zoo.
(c) The Boston Zoo.
(d) The Bronx Zoo.

11. Whom does Jorgen Hoel marry?
(a) Patricia Westerford.
(b) Vi Powys.
(c) Olivia Vandergriff.
(d) Mimi Ma.

12. What prison number is Douglas given in "Douglas Pavlicek"?
(a) 571.
(b) 142.
(c) 323.
(d) 635.

13. How much money is in Olivia's bank account when she leaves school and begins driving?
(a) Just over $500.
(b) Just under $3,000.
(c) Just over $4,000.
(d) Just under $2,000.

14. What does the code do that Neelay works on for his father?
(a) It makes the computer sing.
(b) It makes a kite fly on the computer.
(c) It makes a kitten purr on the computer.
(d) It makes a block jump on the computer.

15. Who wrote the lines: "I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out tilll sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in" (129)?
(a) John Muir.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Ron Chernow.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what kind of trees does Patricia Westerford's work earn her a PhD?

2. What new year comes shortly after Olivia's electrocution in "Trunk"?

3. Where do the trees travel to from Birnam Wood in Macbeth?

4. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get back together for the fifth time, she appears at his door with two tickets to where?

5. In what year does the narrator describe little Patty Westerford falling in love with her pet deer in "Patricia Westerford"?

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