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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 4, what type of monkeys groomed each other at the Monkey Jungle?
(a) Howler.
(b) Tamarin.
(c) Gibbon.
(d) Diana.

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, when did Sydney Ringer discover that he could make a dead frog's heart beat by bathing it in sugared saline?
(a) 1908.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1904.

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?
(a) Maple.
(b) Weeping willow.
(c) Birch.
(d) Spruce.

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

6. In Part One: Chapter 6, for how many weeks did Jahren and her students dig five to seven holes a day and stoop over them for hours?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.

7. In Part Two: Chapter 8, how old is a barrel cactus be that is tall enough to touch your knee?
(a) About 7 years old.
(b) More than 25 years old.
(c) About 15 years old.
(d) About 11 years old.

8. In Part One: Chapter 10, where did Jahren get a job after receiving her PhD?
(a) University of Iowa.
(b) University of Michigan.
(c) University of Colorado.
(d) Georgia Tech.

9. 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) 12 blocks.
(d) 8 blocks.

10. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?
(a) $25.
(b) $75.
(c) $30.
(d) $50.

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

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

13. In Part Two: Chapter 5, during what months would a deciduous grow a canopy of leaves?
(a) April to June.
(b) March to July.
(c) April to July.
(d) March to August.

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

15. In Part One: Chapter 7, to what does Jahren compare the cotyledons starting up photosynthesis?
(a) An old car starting on a winter morning.
(b) Starting a campfire.
(c) A cook mixing batter.
(d) Jump starting a truck.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren say that the insects that cause Dutch Elm disease came to the U.S.?

2. 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?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, what type of dog did Jahren have?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 6, when did the vine kudzu arrive in Philadelphia?

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much money did Jahren waste when she removed a bottle from her workspace without sealing it?

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