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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is possible to grow as a houseplant?
(a) Fingersoll.
(b) Birch.
(c) Banyan.
(d) Heliptrope.

2. Why does Leo like petunias?
(a) His daughter loves them.
(b) He eats them.
(c) His wife loves them.
(d) His grandmother planted them.

3. When was the largest banyan in the USA planted?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1900.
(c) 1922.
(d) 1837.

4. What does May never remember her mother doing?
(a) Cooking.
(b) Writing a card.
(c) Having lunch with a friend.
(d) Cleaning.

5. Who did not change clothes to garden because she did not want to dress down to the plants?
(a) Audrey Heller.
(b) Katherine Hepburn.
(c) Anna Bendry.
(d) Katharine White.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does May eat in the train station?

2. What instrument did May play in school?

3. Who is Neera's husband?

4. What is Sara's favorite color?

5. What word does May not like to see as a start to thank-you notes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens on the beginning of May's trip to London?

2. What is one thing that makes May uncomfortable at night in Vanessa's?

3. What is Neera going through that is hard?

4. What does May mostly decide to do when Neera tells her about her marital problems?

5. What does May see in New York City happening to the honey locusts?

6. What does May notice about Vanessa's relationship with her mother?

7. Why does Blake think the trees on campus are behaving strangely?

8. What does the word "shelter" mostly mean to May?

9. What does Neera refer to as her arrangement with Adam?

10. What does Mona say Lindy said about May?

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