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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where does Douglas Pavlicek caretake for a ranch?
(a) Utah.
(b) Texas.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Idaho.

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

6. How many stitches does Dorothy get after her car accident?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 16.
(d) 4.

7. 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.

8. Who has Olivia just divorced in "Olivia Vandergriff"?
(a) Daniel.
(b) Davy.
(c) Mike.
(d) Roger.

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

10. In what year does the narrator describe little Patty Westerford falling in love with her pet deer in "Patricia Westerford"?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1960.

11. Where does John Hoel send his film to be developed after buying his first camera?
(a) Des Moines.
(b) New York.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Los Angeles.

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

13. Where does Patricia Westerford attend graduate school?
(a) Yale University.
(b) Stanford University.
(c) Purdue University.
(d) Harvard University.

14. 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) 6.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the chestnut tree blight begin, according to the author in "Nicholas Hoel"?

2. Where does Patricia Westerford go to college?

3. What is cold bark brew from the chestnut trees used to treat, according to the narrator in "Nicholas Hoel"?

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

5. What is the name of Patricia Westerford's father?

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