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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 1, what city does Jahren say is the most tree-impoverished city on the East Coast?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 11, when did Jahren and her family move to Hawaii?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what was the name of the young man who supervised the sweet potato experiment?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what did Bill take Jahren outside to see?

5. In the Epilogue, how many stumps have been created since 1990?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 11, why did Jahren move to Hawaii with her family?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what is the hardest thing that Jahren said she had ever done and why?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, why did Jahren like being in Norway?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what type of growth curve did scientists discover in 1879 that corn had?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how would Jahren and BIll test new recruits to see if they would work out in the lab?

6. In Part Two: Chapter 10, what did the van look like after it was wrecked during the trip to a conference in California?

7. In Part Three: Chapter 1, what does Jahren say about Baltimore and trees?

8. In Part Three: Chapter 4, what were Bill and Jahren studying?

9. In Part Two: Chapter 9, how does Jahren describe full-blown mania?

10. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where was Jahren headed at the end of the chapter and with what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahren’s relationship with her son differed from the relationship with her parents. How did the relationship that Jahren had with her son differ from the relationship she had with her parents? How would you describe the relationship that Jahren had with her son? How did having a son affect Jahren’s life physically and emotionally?

Essay Topic 2

Jahren wrote her story from a first-person point of view. How does the use of the first-person point of view help readers identify and empathize with Jahren? How does the point of view affect what readers know about and think of Jahren?

Essay Topic 3

The book could be considered a coming of age story. In what way is the book a coming of age story? How did Jahren mature and come of age in the narrative?

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