The Overstory Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Richard Powers
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 118 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Overstory Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

Richard Powers
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Crown" - Section 2 (Pages 414 - 471).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nick rescue his neighbors from in "Crown"?
(a) A robbery.
(b) A forest fire.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A mudslide.

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

3. 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) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(b) Ron Chernow.
(c) Henry David Thoreau.
(d) John Muir.

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

5. What animals does Maidenhair tell Watchmen have been playing on them in their sleep on their first night of the tree-sit?
(a) Bats.
(b) Flying squirrels.
(c) Garden snakes.
(d) Tarantulas.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Olivia Vandergriff die?

2. Where has Adam become a professor when he encounters Douglas in "Crown"?

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

4. What prison number is Douglas given in "Douglas Pavlicek"?

5. Who wrote "A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" (8)?

(see the answer key)

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