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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. What kind of trees are portrayed in the production of Macbeth described in "Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly"?

2. What are the rings made of that Ma Sih Hsuin's father shows him in "Mimi Ma"?

3. By what month are Jorben Hoel and his wife U.S. citizens, according to the narrator in "Nicholas Hoel"?

4. In what year does the narrator describe Ma Sih Hsuin getting a third-class ticket for the passage to San Francisco in "Mimi Ma"?

5. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get back together for the fifth time, she appears at his door with two tickets to where?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is Olivia Vandergriff's life like prior to her electrocution?

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

5. How did the American chestnut trees die?

6. How and where do Mimi and Douglas meet?

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

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

9. Describe the opening scene presented in the preface of "Roots." How does this scene set up the novel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss the process of clearcutting forests and the impacts of this process. Why are forests clearcutted instead of logged individually? How does this action affect the land? How does it relate to climate change?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the aspects of race and gender in The Overstory. How are these concepts developed through character interactions? What do you think the author is saying about race and gender? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the character of Mimi Ma in The Overstory. How are Mimi's childhood and education described? Into what career does she enter? How does she become involved with activism?

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