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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Patricia Westerford" - "Olivia Vandergriff".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Patricia Westerford begin working with the Bureau of Land Management?
(a) The 1970s.
(b) The 1960s.
(c) The 1990s.
(d) The 1980s.

2. How many acres do Jorgen Hoel and his wife plow and plant in their first year in Iowa?
(a) 10 dozen acres.
(b) 4 dozen acres.
(c) 2 dozen acres.
(d) 6 dozen acres.

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

4. How many chestnuts does Jorgen Hoel discover in the pocket of his smock from the night he proposed to his wife in "Nicholas Hoel"?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of camera is the first the John Hoel buys?

2. Where does the chestnut tree blight begin, according to the author in "Nicholas Hoel"?

3. When do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly go on an audition for Macbeth?

4. Who wrote the lines: "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?" (129)?

5. Who wrote "A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" (8)?

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