The Overstory Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

The Overstory Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Neelay become paralyzed?
(a) He falls off a cliff.
(b) He is shot.
(c) He is in a car accident.
(d) He falls from a tree.

2. How many chestnuts does Jorgen Hoel discover in the pocket of his smock from the night he proposed to his wife in "Nicholas Hoel"?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 6.
(d) 4.

3. 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) 10 feet.
(b) 5 feet.
(c) 6 feet.
(d) 4 feet.

4. What company does Neelay create, named after redwood trees?
(a) Digit-Arts.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Adrian.
(d) Sempervirens.

5. Where is Olivia when she sees the tree protesters on television?
(a) Missouri.
(b) Indiana.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Texas.

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

7. Where was Patty taken to a clinic for tests on her ears?
(a) Malvern.
(b) Chicago.
(c) St. Paul.
(d) Chillicothe.

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

9. What kind of trees is Patricia Westerford surrounded in Utah when she begins to cry?
(a) Ash trees.
(b) Banyan trees.
(c) Aspen trees.
(d) Almond trees.

10. How much money is in Olivia's bank account when she leaves school and begins driving?
(a) Just over $500.
(b) Just over $4,000.
(c) Just under $2,000.
(d) Just under $3,000.

11. Where does Patricia Westerford go to college?
(a) DePaul University.
(b) University of California Los Angeles.
(c) Berkeley University.
(d) Eastern Kentucky University.

12. After how many days did the Stanford Prison Experiment come to a close?
(a) 6.
(b) 16.
(c) 12.
(d) 9.

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

14. How far away does Olivia's father live from her boarding house at college?
(a) 300 miles away.
(b) 650 miles away.
(c) 800 miles away.
(d) 240 miles away.

15. What kind of tree does Dorothy drive into, crashing her car?
(a) A banyan tree.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) A linden tree.
(d) An oak tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Patricia Westerford's father's profession?

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

3. How does Olivia Vandergriff die?

4. When does Patricia Westerford begin working with the Bureau of Land Management?

5. When was the Richmond Cemetery established?

(see the answer keys)

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