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

2. The book of photographs of the tree that Nick Hoel shows Olivia spans how many years of the tree's life?
(a) 56 years.
(b) 23 years.
(c) 99 years.
(d) 76 years.

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

4. 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) Paris.
(d) London.

5. When do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly go on an audition for Macbeth?
(a) 1969.
(b) 1982.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1974.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the trees travel to from Birnam Wood in Macbeth?

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

3. How much money is in Olivia's bank account when she leaves school and begins driving?

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

5. 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)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Douglas do after his service in Vietnam?

2. How does Neelay Mehta come to love computers and coding?

3. How do the Hoel chestnut trees get planted? What happens to them?

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

5. How does Olivia's electrocution change her outlook on life?

6. How did Patricia Westerford develop a love for trees?

7. What is the significance of the scroll and rings in Mimi Ma's backstory?

8. What do The Sylvan Prophesies and Sempervirens refer to?

9. How does Olivia Vandergriff's become electrocuted?

10. What does Douglas experience during his service in the Vietnam War?

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