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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) 1919.
(c) 1964.
(d) 1948.

3. Where does Jorgen Hoel's youngest son begin working after he grows up?
(a) The County Assessor's Office.
(b) The State Penitentiary.
(c) The County Jail.
(d) The home of his Uncle Walter.

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

5. What play have Ray and Dorothy just returned home from when they first appear in "Trunk"?
(a) Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(d) Guys and Dolls.

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

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

8. Who discovered Olivia after she had been electrocuted?
(a) Mark.
(b) Davy.
(c) Roger.
(d) Jack.

9. What character is Ray Brinkman cast in Macbeth?
(a) Malcolm.
(b) Macduff.
(c) Banquo.
(d) Macbeth.

10. What is the name of Patricia Westerford's father?
(a) Roger.
(b) Jack.
(c) Bill.
(d) Tim.

11. Who is John Hoel's son that carries on his ritual of photographing the tree?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Frank.
(c) Roger.
(d) Richard.

12. Who wrote the lines: "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?" (129)?
(a) John Muir.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) Ron Chernow.

13. When was the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1971.
(c) 1977.
(d) 1981.

14. What does the college lecturer say is the backbone of civilization just before Olivia leaves the auditorium in "Trunk"?
(a) Money.
(b) Love.
(c) Nature.
(d) Insurance.

15. For how long does the narrator say Olivia was dead in "Trunk"?
(a) 2 minutes and 2 seconds.
(b) 45 seconds.
(c) 1 minute and 10 seconds.
(d) 1 minute and 38 seconds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year does John Hoel begin photographing the chestnut tree every month?

2. Where do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly audition for Macbeth?

3. In what war does Douglas Pavlicek serve in the army?

4. What are the rings made of that Ma Sih Hsuin's father shows him in "Mimi Ma"?

5. What does the phrase "noli timere" that appears on a man's t-shirt in "Trunk" translate to from Latin?

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