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

2. What is Patricia Westerford's father's profession?
(a) He is an ag extension agent.
(b) He is a patent lawyer.
(c) He is a pharmacist.
(d) He is a medical assistant.

3. Where do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly audition for Macbeth?
(a) Chicago.
(b) New York.
(c) St. Paul.
(d) Malvern.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what war does Douglas Pavlicek serve in the army?

2. What roles are Ray and Dorothy performing in the play they have just returned home from in "Trunk"?

3. Who proposes to Patricia Westerford?

4. From where do Jorgen Hoel and his wife move to Iowa?

5. Who discovered Olivia after she had been electrocuted?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the Life Defense Force? How does it factor into the novel?

2. What was the Stanford Prison Experiment?

3. How does Mimi feel after her arrest with Douglas at the march in "Trunks"?

4. Why does Ray's profession affect his relationship with Dorothy?

5. What does Adam Appich go on to study as an adult? Why?

6. How did the American chestnut trees die?

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

8. How is Patricia Westerford's education described? What career does she enter?

9. What leads Adam Appich to his joining the group of activists?

10. What tragedy does Nicholas Hoel experience in his youth?

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