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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 4, how much money did Jahren waste when she removed a bottle from her workspace without sealing it?
(a) About $1,500.
(b) At least $1,000.
(c) $750.
(d) $625.

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?
(a) Half a million dollars.
(b) $250,000.
(c) $100,000.
(d) Quarter of a million dollars.

3. 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.

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?
(a) 22 years.
(b) 10 years.
(c) 24 years.
(d) 18 years.

5. In 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?
(a) 16 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 17 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. When would Jahren and her mother plant their garden every year?

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far was Jahren's hometown from the Iowa border?

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how many years did Jahren's father teach introductory physics and earth science?

5. In Part One: Chapter 5, what tree does Jahren say has the deepest-growing roots?

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