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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What company attempts to merge with Neelay's in "Trunk"?
(a) Plexinon.
(b) Sempervirens.
(c) Digit-Arts.
(d) Drian-co.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has Olivia just divorced in "Olivia Vandergriff"?

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

3. Who discovered Olivia after she had been electrocuted?

4. When Jorgen Hoel and his wife move to Iowa, how far away are their nearest neighbors?

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the American chestnut trees die?

2. How does Johnny Appleseed factor into the novel?

3. What is the significance of the mulberry tree in Mimi Ma's backstory?

4. Where do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly go on their first date? Why?

5. Who is Dennis Ward and what is his relationship to Patricia Westerford?

6. How and where do Mimi and Douglas meet?

7. What is the event that gives Olivia focus on her destination and mission?

8. Who records the growth of the Hoel chestnut tree? How is it recorded?

9. What connection does Adam Appich have to trees in his childhood?

10. How does the play Macbeth relate to The Overstory?

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