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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 7, where did Bill live after he quit living in his van?
(a) A student office.
(b) On a park bench.
(c) In a locker room.
(d) In the lab.

2. How tall will hackberry trees grow to be?
(a) 30 feet tall.
(b) 25 feet tall.
(c) 60 feet tall.
(d) 40 feet tall.

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

4. In Part Two: Chapter 6, where did the vast majority of vines found in North America that are invasive come from?
(a) Australia.
(b) Europe and Eurasia.
(c) Asia.
(d) South America.

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

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 Part Two: Chapter 7, how long did Bill's van have to cool down in order to start it?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what type of vehicle did Jahren purchase when a "check engine" (131) light came on in the first car she ever owned?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 6, how long can a kudzu vine grow?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what were the pecularities of Bill's van?

3. In Part One: Chapter 9, how often would trees lose a limb?

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

5. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren explain about the hackberry tree?

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

7. In Part Two: Chapter 8, how does a barrel cactus survive in the dessert?

8. How did the author describe where she and her family lived in Part One: Chapter 1?

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

10. In Part One: Part 4, what did Jahren say that working in a hospital taught her?

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