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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is John Hoel's son that carries on his ritual of photographing the tree?
2. 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)?
3. How does Patricia Westerford's father die?
4. Where does Jorgen Hoel's middle son become a banker?
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 is Patricia Westerford's education described? What career does she enter?
2. Why does Ray's profession affect his relationship with Dorothy?
3. Who records the growth of the Hoel chestnut tree? How is it recorded?
4. How does the relationship between Dorothy and Ray develop over time?
5. How did the American chestnut trees die?
6. Where does Olivia meet Nick? What are their circumstances at the time?
7. What was the Stanford Prison Experiment?
8. What is the significance of the scroll and rings in Mimi Ma's backstory?
9. What leads to the downfall of Patricia Westerford's career? How is it revived?
10. What does Douglas do after his service in Vietnam?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Discuss the theme of destruction in The Overstory. How is this theme developed through the actions of the characters? How is it explored through symbolism? What statement do you think the author is making regarding destruction?
Essay Topic 2
Describe and discuss the different settings in The Overstory. What do these settings have in common? How are they unique? What imagery is used in describing these settings?
Essay Topic 3
Analyze and discuss the character of Olivia Vandergriff. What happens in Olivia's life to make her make her journey? Where does Olivia go? Why? How does her story interconnect to the other characters'?
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