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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get re-engaged, what show are they performing in?
(a) Romeo and Juliet.
(b) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(c) Macbeth.
(d) You Can't Take It with You.

5. What does the phrase "noli timere" that appears on a man's t-shirt in "Trunk" translate to from Latin?
(a) The end is near.
(b) I live forever.
(c) Do not be afraid.
(d) There is no time.

6. Who led the Stanford Prison Experiment?
(a) Philip Zimbardo.
(b) Gerald Kimble.
(c) Andrew Stabler.
(d) Roger Rilway.

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

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

9. In what area of law does Ray Brinkman specialize?
(a) Small claims.
(b) Stock exchange.
(c) Entertainment.
(d) Copyrights and patents.

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

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

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

13. What is the mushroom that Patricia Westerford almost commits suicide with?
(a) Amanita bisporigera.
(b) Podostroma cornu-damae.
(c) Lepiota brunneoincarnata.
(d) Galerina marginata.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What company does Neelay create, named after redwood trees?

2. How does Patricia Westerford's father die?

3. What kind of tree does Dorothy drive into, crashing her car?

4. How much were the participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment paid each day?

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

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