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

3. How does Olivia Vandergriff die?
(a) She has a stroke.
(b) She has an aneurysm.
(c) She is drowned.
(d) She is electrocuted.

4. Which child of Jorgen Hoel's kills a chestnut tree by stripping its leaves to use as play money?
(a) John.
(b) Roger.
(c) Andrew.
(d) George.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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)?

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

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

4. When do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly go on an audition for Macbeth?

5. What subject does Olivia Vandergriff major in, in college?

(see the answer key)

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