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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 does Mimi forget and return to her office to retrieve after she has been fired?

2. What causes Ray to collapse in "Trunk"?

3. What trees is the unnamed man surrounded by in the beginning of "Crown"?

4. Where do the protestor protagonists go in Montana to stage their last fiery protest?

5. What does Nicholas return to his former homestead to retreive in "Crown"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Mastery and how is it described?

2. How does Neelay want to change Mastery in "Crown"? How do his peers respond?

3. What does Neelay discover in Mastery in "Crown"? How does this information change his outlook about the game?

4. When and where do Adam and Douglas reencounter one another in "Crown"? Why is this encounter important?

5. Who helps Nick on this project in "Seeds"? What is the significance of these characters?

6. Who turned in Adam? Why?

7. What does Mimi do with her father's scroll in "Crown"? Why?

8. Why do Adam and others go to Bitterroots, Montana?

9. What does "releaf" refer to and how is it important in the novel?

10. What is The Secret Forest and upon what is it based?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Analyze and discuss the characters of Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly in The Overstory. How do these characters meet? What is their relationship like? How does their relationship evolve over time?

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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