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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 English teacher.
(c) His Algebra teacher.
(d) His Biology teacher.

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

3. What crops do Jorgen Hoel and his wife plant in their first season in Iowa?
(a) Strawberries and hops.
(b) Almonds, apples, and pears.
(c) Rice, beans, and wheat.
(d) Corn, beans, and potatoes.

4. Where do the trees travel to from Birnam Wood in Macbeth?
(a) Edinburgh.
(b) Iverness.
(c) Dunsinane.
(d) Glasgow.

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

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

7. Whom does Jorgen Hoel marry?
(a) Olivia Vandergriff.
(b) Patricia Westerford.
(c) Vi Powys.
(d) Mimi Ma.

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

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

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

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

12. 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) 6 feet.
(c) 4 feet.
(d) 5 feet.

13. 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) 1948.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1954.

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

15. Where does Olivia sleep when she first stops on her journey in "Trunk"?
(a) In a National Parks campground.
(b) Outside a train station.
(c) In a cheap motel.
(d) Outside a warehouse store.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jorgen Hoel's middle son become a banker?

2. Who proposes to Patricia Westerford?

3. Where is Olivia when she sees the tree protesters on television?

4. In what area of law does Ray Brinkman specialize?

5. Where does Olivia stop at the world's largest truck stop along her journey?

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