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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?
(a) 11 days.
(b) Around 8 days.
(c) About 20 days.
(d) 3 days.

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, how many years did Jahren's father teach introductory physics and earth science?
(a) 38.
(b) 42.
(c) 34.
(d) 29.

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?
(a) Proofreader.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Camera person.
(d) Hospital pharmacy.

5. In Part One: Chapter 8, what was the topic for Jahren's Ph.D thesis?
(a) Hackberry tree.
(b) Ash trees.
(c) Elm trees.
(d) Hickory trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 5, during what months would a deciduous grow a canopy of leaves?

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, how many hours was Bill paid to work in Jahren's advisor's laboratory?

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old was the author when she first performed an experiment because she needed the money?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. At the beginning of Part One: Part 4, what jobs did Jahren remembering have as an undergraduate?

2. In Part One: Chapter 5, what did Jahren say about the deepest-growing roots?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Jahren hope to get a new air compressor?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what did Jahren do to try to find time for everything she had to do?

6. In Part One: Chapter 2, what was the author's favorite childhood tree, and how did it die?

7. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say that a science professor did and did not worry about?

8. In Part Two: Chapter 6, what does Jahren say about vines?

9. In Part One: Chapter 9, how did Jahrens reveal that stems functioned?

10. In Part One: Chapter 6, when and how did Bill live in a hole?

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