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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. Where does Patricia Westerford move after earning her PhD?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) Ohio.
(d) Iowa.

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

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

4. In how much time do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly walk 500 miles of the Appalachian Trail?
(a) 16 days.
(b) 43 days.
(c) 20 days.
(d) 28 days.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. About how long does Nick Hoel describe his "tree period" in "Trunk"?

2. In what California town does Olivia observe protesters on television who are trying to protect the trees?

3. What crops do Jorgen Hoel and his wife plant in their first season in Iowa?

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

5. What is Patricia Westerford's father's profession?

Short Essay Questions

1. How and where do Mimi and Douglas meet?

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

3. How did the American chestnut trees die?

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does Olivia Vandergriff's become electrocuted?

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

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