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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

3. Where was Patty taken to a clinic for tests on her ears?
(a) Malvern.
(b) St. Paul.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Chillicothe.

4. When was the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted?
(a) 1971.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1981.
(d) 1977.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where does Patricia Westerford go to college?

4. After how many days did the Stanford Prison Experiment come to a close?

5. What prison number is Douglas given in "Douglas Pavlicek"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the American chestnut trees die?

2. What does Adam Appich go on to study as an adult? Why?

3. What is the Life Defense Force? How does it factor into the novel?

4. How does Johnny Appleseed factor into the novel?

5. How is Patricia Westerford's education described? What career does she enter?

6. What is the significance of the mulberry tree in Mimi Ma's backstory?

7. Where does Olivia meet Nick? What are their circumstances at the time?

8. How do Olivia's parents respond to the change in her life after electrocution?

9. Where do Ray Brinkman and Dorothy Cazaly go on their first date? Why?

10. What connection does Adam Appich have to trees in his childhood?

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