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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What roles are Ray and Dorothy performing in the play they have just returned home from in "Trunk"?
(a) Annette and Robert.
(b) Lady Macbeth and Macduff.
(c) George and Martha.
(d) Nick and Honey.

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

3. How much were the participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment paid each day?
(a) $5.
(b) $19.
(c) $15.
(d) $10.

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

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

6. In what year does the narrator describe Ma Sih Hsuin getting a third-class ticket for the passage to San Francisco in "Mimi Ma"?
(a) 1954.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1948.

7. What is tea from the infant chestnut trees used to treat, according to the narrator in "Nicholas Hoel"?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Heart trouble.
(d) Impotence.

8. What subject does Olivia Vandergriff major in, in college?
(a) Dendrology.
(b) Actuarial science.
(c) Botany.
(d) Social psychology.

9. 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.

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

11. How does Patricia Westerford's father die?
(a) He hangs himself.
(b) He is shot during an armed robbery.
(c) He dies in an auto accident.
(d) He has a stroke.

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

13. Whose poetry does Patricia Westerford read at her father's funeral?
(a) Ovid's.
(b) Whitman's.
(c) Thoreau's.
(d) Rilke's.

14. How old is Jorgen Hoel when the draft goes out in 1863?
(a) 33.
(b) 29.
(c) 19.
(d) 39.

15. What object caused Olivia's electrocution?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A microwave.
(c) A television.
(d) A hairdryer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Patricia Westerford move after earning her PhD?

2. For how long does the narrator say Olivia was dead in "Trunk"?

3. How many acres do Jorgen Hoel and his wife plow and plant in their first year in Iowa?

4. When Jorgen Hoel and his wife move to Iowa, how far away are their nearest neighbors?

5. Where does Jorgen Hoel's youngest son begin working after he grows up?

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