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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what war does Douglas Pavlicek serve in the army?

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

3. Who led the Stanford Prison Experiment?

4. How far away does Olivia's father live from her boarding house at college?

5. Where does Douglas Pavlicek caretake for a ranch?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Dennis Ward and what is his relationship to Patricia Westerford?

2. How and where do Mimi and Douglas meet?

3. How does Neelay Mehta come to love computers and coding?

4. What leads Adam Appich to his joining the group of activists?

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

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

7. How do the Hoel chestnut trees get planted? What happens to them?

8. How does the play Macbeth relate to The Overstory?

9. How does Mimi feel after her arrest with Douglas at the march in "Trunks"?

10. What leads to the downfall of Patricia Westerford's career? How is it revived?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe and discuss three examples of symbolism in The Overstory. What characters can be seen symbolically and what do they represent? What objects or settings are symbolic? How?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss the backstory and character of Patricia Westerford in The Overstory. What compels Patricia to become a dendrologist? How successful is her career? What does she do at the end of the novel and why?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Neelay Mehta's backstory and discuss his role in the novel. How is Neelay connected to nature? What does he do with this connection? Why?

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