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

2. In Part Two: Chapter 2, who did Bill and Jahren run gas samples for?
(a) A group of graduate students.
(b) Professor of Physics.
(c) Head graduate student.
(d) Professor of Chemistry.

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

4. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?
(a) 150.
(b) 600.
(c) 30.
(d) 300.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, where did Bill hide his hair when he cut it off?
(a) Coffee can.
(b) In a drawer in the lab.
(c) Under the driver's seat of his van.
(d) Sweet gum tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 6, how long did it take for lemons to ripen in a room flooded with ethylene gas?

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

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

4. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how many McDonald's cheeseburgers did Bill buy when they were 25 cents a piece?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how much money does Jahren say was available for curiosity-driven science?

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 1, why did the author's mother have to quit college?

3. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren say about becoming a scientist and being a scientist?

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

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

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

7. In Part One: Chapter 1, how did the author get money for her work, and why was that stressful for her?

8. In Part One: Chapter 8, how did Jahren feel when she discovered what the seed of a hackberry was comprised of?

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

10. In Part Two: Chapter 3, what symbiotic relationship do some trees and fungi have?

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