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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 12-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 6, what did Jahren plan to name a horse if she ever had one?
(a) Chestnut.
(b) Sugar.
(c) Mags.
(d) Flossie.

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

3. In Part Three: Chapter 2, how much did Ed's old mass spectrometer probably weigh?
(a) About 500 pounds.
(b) 700 pounds.
(c) At least a ton.
(d) 1,200 pounds.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 4, where did Bill and Jahren take a group of students to map soil?
(a) Atkinson County.
(b) Baker County.
(c) Gwinnett County.
(d) Decatur County.

5. In Part Three: Chapter 5, how does Jahren say that Magnolia, maple, dogwood, willow, cherry, and apple trees spread pollen?
(a) Birds.
(b) Bees.
(c) Flies and beetles.
(d) Wind.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 11, how many months was Bill's salary guaranteed yearly from the University of Hawaii?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren's son say he was going to be when he grew up?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 6, when did the vine kudzu arrive in Philadelphia?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?

5. At the beginning of Part Three: Chapter 4, what was Jahren covered in?

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