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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many One A Day vitamins would it take to provide the magnesium that a maple tree needs?
(a) 6.
(b) 14.
(c) 8.
(d) 11.

2. In Part Two: Chapter 7 when Bill was living in his van, at what time would he quit drinking liquids?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 8:00 p.m.
(c) 7:30 p.m.
(d) 6 p.m.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how often must an academic scientist solicit a new contract with the federal government?
(a) Every 3 years.
(b) Every 48 months.
(c) About every 4 years.
(d) Every 36 months.

4. What was the name of the gorilla at Monkey Jungle who created crayon drawings?
(a) Duke.
(b) King.
(c) Goliath.
(d) Bongo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?

2. In what states did Jahren study hackberry trees in Part One: Chapter 8?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 6, where did the vast majority of vines found in North America that are invasive come from?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 4, how many weeks did Jahren, Bill, and the paleontologists spend exhuming fossil trees?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 12, what did Jahren nickname one of her master's students who kept getting D-minuses?

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