View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What prison number is Douglas given in "Douglas Pavlicek"?
(a) 571.
(b) 635.
(c) 323.
(d) 142.

3. How far away does Olivia's father live from her boarding house at college?
(a) 800 miles away.
(b) 300 miles away.
(c) 650 miles away.
(d) 240 miles away.

4. In what war does Douglas Pavlicek serve in the army?
(a) The Korean War.
(b) The War in Afghanistan.
(c) World War II.
(d) The Vietnam War.

5. Who wrote the lines: "Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?" (129)?
(a) John Muir.
(b) Henry David Thoreau.
(c) Ron Chernow.
(d) Henry Cabot Lodge.

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

7. Where does Patricia Westerford attend graduate school?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Purdue University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) Stanford University.

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

9. Where does Jorgen Hoel's middle son become a banker?
(a) Hershaw.
(b) Ames.
(c) Trinidad.
(d) Malvern.

10. What is tea from the infant chestnut trees used to treat, according to the narrator in "Nicholas Hoel"?
(a) Cancer.
(b) Headaches.
(c) Heart trouble.
(d) Impotence.

11. Who wrote "A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars" (8)?
(a) Walt Whitman.
(b) William Wordsworth.
(c) Percy Shelley.
(d) John Donne.

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

13. What play have Ray and Dorothy just returned home from when they first appear in "Trunk"?
(a) Guys and Dolls.
(b) Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang.
(c) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(d) Macbeth.

14. How much money is in Olivia's bank account when she leaves school and begins driving?
(a) Just under $2,000.
(b) Just over $4,000.
(c) Just under $3,000.
(d) Just over $500.

15. Who led the Stanford Prison Experiment?
(a) Philip Zimbardo.
(b) Roger Rilway.
(c) Gerald Kimble.
(d) Andrew Stabler.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Olivia stop at the world's largest truck stop along her journey?

2. How much were the participants in the Stanford Prison Experiment paid each day?

3. About how long does Nick Hoel describe his "tree period" in "Trunk"?

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

5. How many chestnuts does Jorgen Hoel discover in the pocket of his smock from the night he proposed to his wife in "Nicholas Hoel"?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 382 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample