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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who takes Neelay's coding notes at school?
(a) His Latin teacher.
(b) His Biology teacher.
(c) His Algebra teacher.
(d) His English teacher.

2. In how much time do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly walk 500 miles of the Appalachian Trail?
(a) 28 days.
(b) 20 days.
(c) 43 days.
(d) 16 days.

3. What is Patricia Westerford's father's profession?
(a) He is a pharmacist.
(b) He is an ag extension agent.
(c) He is a medical assistant.
(d) He is a patent lawyer.

4. On what kind of trees does Patricia Westerford's work earn her a PhD?
(a) Pine trees.
(b) Almond trees.
(c) Tulip trees.
(d) Apple trees.

5. Against what kind of tree is the woman leaning in the beginning of "Roots"?
(a) A cedar tree.
(b) A palm tree.
(c) A locust tree.
(d) A pine tree.

6. In what California town does Olivia observe protesters on television who are trying to protect the trees?
(a) Solace.
(b) Paradise.
(c) Arcata.
(d) Eureka.

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

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

9. Where do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly audition for Macbeth?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) Malvern.
(d) St. Paul.

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

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

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

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

14. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get back together for the fifth time, she appears at his door with two tickets to where?
(a) Rome.
(b) Amsterdam.
(c) London.
(d) Paris.

15. In what war does Douglas Pavlicek serve in the army?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The Vietnam War.
(c) World War II.
(d) The War in Afghanistan.

Short Answer Questions

1. How much money have Dorothy and Ray spent on fertility treatments for the past several years, according to the narrator in "Trunk"?

2. What new year comes shortly after Olivia's electrocution in "Trunk"?

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

4. Where does Nicholas Hoel go to a museum exhibit when home for the holidays in "Nicholas Hoel"?

5. How old is Nick Hoel when he meets Olivia?

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