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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far would Jahren and her father walk home after leaving his lab?
(a) 2 miles.
(b) 1/2 mile.
(c) 8 blocks.
(d) 12 blocks.

2. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?
(a) 5%.
(b) Tripled.
(c) 40%
(d) Doubled.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when did Bill and Jahren take a group of five students to learn to characterize and map soil?
(a) Summer 1997.
(b) Fall 1997.
(c) Winter 1997.
(d) Spring 1997.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what color was Bill's hair?
(a) Brown.
(b) Red.
(c) Black.
(d) Salt and pepper.

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

6. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how many McDonald's cheeseburgers did Bill buy when they were 25 cents a piece?
(a) 25.
(b) 40 or so.
(c) About 50.
(d) 60.

7. In Part One: Chapter 6, how long did it take for lemons to ripen in a room flooded with ethylene gas?
(a) 8 hours.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 15 hours.
(d) 10 hours.

8. What did Jahren discover that the powder from ground hackberry was in Part One: Chapter 8?
(a) Obsidian.
(b) Pumice.
(c) Opal.
(d) Moldavite.

9. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how much did Bill and Jahren pay to get their group into Monkey Jungle?
(a) $57.
(b) $33.
(c) $48.
(d) $61.

10. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 3 a.m.
(c) 11 p.m.
(d) 1 a.m.

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

12. In Part Two: Chapter 6, how long can a kudzu vine grow?
(a) 80 feet.
(b) 60 feet.
(c) 100 feet.
(d) 210 feet.

13. In Part One: Chapter 5, what tree does Jahren say has the deepest-growing roots?
(a) Oak tree.
(b) Maple tree.
(c) Birch tree.
(d) Acacia tree.

14. In Part One: Chapter 2, when did the tree that the author remembered from her childhood die?
(a) 2013.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2011.

15. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren ask to access the x-ray diffraction lab?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, when did the train pull away from the factory every evening?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many pounds of maple leaves contain enough sucrose to make three pecan pies?

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

5. In Part One: Chapter 8, in 1995, where did Jahren study hackberry trees?

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