The Overstory Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Richard Powers
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The Overstory Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

Richard Powers
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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Trunk" - Section 2 (Pages 256 - 352).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is Ray Brinkman cast in Macbeth?
(a) Macbeth.
(b) Macduff.
(c) Malcolm.
(d) Banquo.

2. When Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly get re-engaged, what show are they performing in?
(a) You Can't Take It with You.
(b) Macbeth.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(d) Romeo and Juliet.

3. What new year comes shortly after Olivia's electrocution in "Trunk"?
(a) 2000.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1970.

4. The book of photographs of the tree that Nick Hoel shows Olivia spans how many years of the tree's life?
(a) 76 years.
(b) 56 years.
(c) 99 years.
(d) 23 years.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mushroom that Patricia Westerford almost commits suicide with?

2. What kind of trees is Patricia Westerford surrounded in Utah when she begins to cry?

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

4. Approximately how high in the tree are Watchman and Maidenhair when they perform their first tree-sit?

5. How does Neelay become paralyzed?

(see the answer key)

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