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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much money have Dorothy and Ray spent on fertility treatments for the past several years, according to the narrator in "Trunk"?
(a) $50,000.
(b) $200,000.
(c) $150,000.
(d) $100,000.

2. The book of photographs of the tree that Nick Hoel shows Olivia spans how many years of the tree's life?
(a) 23 years.
(b) 76 years.
(c) 99 years.
(d) 56 years.

3. In what war does Douglas Pavlicek serve in the army?
(a) World War II.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) The War in Afghanistan.
(d) The Korean War.

4. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get back together for the fifth time, she appears at his door with two tickets to where?
(a) Paris.
(b) London.
(c) Rome.
(d) Amsterdam.

5. When was the Richmond Cemetery established?
(a) 1919.
(b) 1903.
(c) 1823.
(d) 1848.

6. What is the answer to the following question posed to Patty by her father in "Patricia Westerford"? "If you carved your name four feet high in the bark of a beech tree, how high would it be after half a century" (113)?
(a) 5 feet.
(b) 4 feet.
(c) 10 feet.
(d) 6 feet.

7. How many acres do Jorgen Hoel and his wife plow and plant in their first year in Iowa?
(a) 2 dozen acres.
(b) 10 dozen acres.
(c) 4 dozen acres.
(d) 6 dozen acres.

8. About how long does Nick Hoel describe his "tree period" in "Trunk"?
(a) 9 years.
(b) 3 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 6 years.

9. Where does Jorgen Hoel's middle son become a banker?
(a) Malvern.
(b) Hershaw.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Ames.

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

11. When does Patricia Westerford begin working with the Bureau of Land Management?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1980s.
(d) The 1990s.

12. Where does Patricia Westerford move after earning her PhD?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Ohio.

13. What does the phrase "noli timere" that appears on a man's t-shirt in "Trunk" translate to from Latin?
(a) Do not be afraid.
(b) There is no time.
(c) I live forever.
(d) The end is near.

14. Who led the Stanford Prison Experiment?
(a) Gerald Kimble.
(b) Philip Zimbardo.
(c) Andrew Stabler.
(d) Roger Rilway.

15. On what date does Olivia Vandergriff's story begin?
(a) December 12, 1989.
(b) May 23, 1993.
(c) September 7, 1995.
(d) June 2, 1988.

Short Answer Questions

1. What play have Ray and Dorothy just returned home from when they first appear in "Trunk"?

2. What company attempts to merge with Neelay's in "Trunk"?

3. Who wrote the lines: "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?" (129)?

4. Which child of Jorgen Hoel's kills a chestnut tree by stripping its leaves to use as play money?

5. How does Neelay become paralyzed?

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