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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Patricia Westerford go to college?
(a) University of California Los Angeles.
(b) Berkeley University.
(c) DePaul University.
(d) Eastern Kentucky University.

2. What kind of tree was Daphne turned into just before Apollo caught her?
(a) A bay laurel tree.
(b) A weeping willow tree.
(c) A sugar maple tree.
(d) A white pine tree.

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

4. What birthday is Dorothy looking forward to next Friday in "Trunk"?
(a) Her thirty-ninth birthday.
(b) Her thirty-third birthday.
(c) Her forty-second birthday.
(d) Her forty-fifth birthday.

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

6. What company attempts to merge with Neelay's in "Trunk"?
(a) Plexinon.
(b) Digit-Arts.
(c) Sempervirens.
(d) Drian-co.

7. Where do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly audition for Macbeth?
(a) Chicago.
(b) St. Paul.
(c) Malvern.
(d) New York.

8. In what California town does Olivia observe protesters on television who are trying to protect the trees?
(a) Arcata.
(b) Eureka.
(c) Solace.
(d) Paradise.

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. Who takes Neelay's coding notes at school?
(a) His Biology teacher.
(b) His Algebra teacher.
(c) His Latin teacher.
(d) His English teacher.

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

15. In what year does the narrator describe little Patty Westerford falling in love with her pet deer in "Patricia Westerford"?
(a) 1950.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1970.
(d) 1940.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jorgen Hoel and his wife move to Iowa, how far away are their nearest neighbors?

2. Where does Douglas Pavlicek caretake for a ranch?

3. 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)?

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

5. What crops do Jorgen Hoel and his wife plant in their first season in Iowa?

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