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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 7, to what does Jahren compare the cotyledons starting up photosynthesis?
(a) Starting a campfire.
(b) A cook mixing batter.
(c) An old car starting on a winter morning.
(d) Jump starting a truck.

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, when did Sydney Ringer discover that he could make a dead frog's heart beat by bathing it in sugared saline?
(a) 1882.
(b) 1904.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1908.

3. When Jahren was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, how many jobs did she hold in Part One: Chapter 4?
(a) 10.
(b) 5.
(c) 14.
(d) 2.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, where did Lydia say that her ex-husband lived?

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren's great-grandparents come from?

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

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