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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 6, for how many weeks did Jahren and her students dig five to seven holes a day and stoop over them for hours?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, what days of the week would psychiatric patients have ECT therapy?
(a) Mondays and Wednesdays.
(b) Mondays and Fridays.
(c) Wednesdays and Fridays.
(d) Tuesdays and Thursday.

3. In The Prologue, how much of the land on Earth used to be covered in forest?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 3/4.
(d) 2/3.

4. In Part One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?
(a) Weeping willow.
(b) Spruce.
(c) Maple.
(d) Birch.

5. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?
(a) 150.
(b) 300.
(c) 600.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, what type of car did Lydia say that a woman should never buy?

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren get a scholarship to attend college?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long did Jahren work in a pharmacy?

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long had Lydia been working 60 hours a week?

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