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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What roles are Ray and Dorothy performing in the play they have just returned home from in "Trunk"?
(a) Nick and Honey.
(b) Lady Macbeth and Macduff.
(c) Annette and Robert.
(d) George and Martha.

2. Where does Olivia sleep when she first stops on her journey in "Trunk"?
(a) In a cheap motel.
(b) In a National Parks campground.
(c) Outside a train station.
(d) Outside a warehouse store.

3. Where does Jorgen Hoel's youngest son begin working after he grows up?
(a) The County Jail.
(b) The State Penitentiary.
(c) The home of his Uncle Walter.
(d) The County Assessor's Office.

4. Where does Douglas Pavlicek caretake for a ranch?
(a) Utah.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Texas.
(d) Nebraska.

5. What does the college lecturer say is the backbone of civilization just before Olivia leaves the auditorium in "Trunk"?
(a) Insurance.
(b) Love.
(c) Money.
(d) Nature.

6. 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)?
(a) Ron Chernow.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Henry Cabot Lodge.
(d) John Muir.

7. Where do the trees travel to from Birnam Wood in Macbeth?
(a) Iverness.
(b) Edinburgh.
(c) Glasgow.
(d) Dunsinane.

8. Which child of Jorgen Hoel's kills a chestnut tree by stripping its leaves to use as play money?
(a) Roger.
(b) Andrew.
(c) John.
(d) George.

9. Against what kind of tree is the woman leaning in the beginning of "Roots"?
(a) A cedar tree.
(b) A locust tree.
(c) A pine tree.
(d) A palm tree.

10. Where is Olivia when she sees the tree protesters on television?
(a) Ohio.
(b) Texas.
(c) Missouri.
(d) Indiana.

11. From where do Jorgen Hoel and his wife move to Iowa?
(a) Harlem, New York.
(b) Staten Island, New York.
(c) Brooklyn, New York.
(d) The Bronx, New York.

12. What wooden object is the unnamed man contemplating in his prison cell in the beginning of "Trunk"?
(a) A coffee table.
(b) A desk.
(c) An apple crate.
(d) A chair.

13. On what kind of trees does Patricia Westerford's work earn her a PhD?
(a) Pine trees.
(b) Almond trees.
(c) Apple trees.
(d) Tulip trees.

14. About how long does Nick Hoel describe his "tree period" in "Trunk"?
(a) 6 years.
(b) 9 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 3 years.

15. What is Patricia Westerford's father's profession?
(a) He is a medical assistant.
(b) He is a patent lawyer.
(c) He is an ag extension agent.
(d) He is a pharmacist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What company attempts to merge with Neelay's in "Trunk"?

2. Whose poetry does Patricia Westerford read at her father's funeral?

3. How old is Nick Hoel when he meets Olivia?

4. How does Neelay become paralyzed?

5. What new year comes shortly after Olivia's electrocution in "Trunk"?

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