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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 4, how many weeks did Jahren, Bill, and the paleontologists spend exhuming fossil trees?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

2. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 4, what did BIll do?
(a) Dance.
(b) Exercise.
(c) Sing.
(d) Monologue.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 6, what did Jahren plan to name a horse if she ever had one?
(a) Chestnut.
(b) Mags.
(c) Sugar.
(d) Flossie.

4. In Part Three: Chapter 1, how much protected forest is expected to be displaced during the next 40 years?
(a) 250,000 acres.
(b) Area the size of Pennsylvania.
(c) Area the size of Connecticut.
(d) 100,000 acres.

5. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what did Bill take Jahren outside to see?
(a) Double rainbow.
(b) Altocumulus clouds.
(c) Sun dog.
(d) Lenticular clouds.

6. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how many times had Jahren already traveled the same places and run into poison ivy?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

7. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what year did Jahren want to go back to at the end of the chapter?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1995.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1997.

8. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how long did Jahren think it would take to drive to California?
(a) 55 hours.
(b) 60 hours.
(c) 65 hours.
(d) 50 hours.

9. In Part Three: Chapter 10, where did Jahren tell Bill to meet her?
(a) Norway.
(b) Germany.
(c) Ireland.
(d) Switzerland.

10. In Part Three: Chapter 5, what percent of pollen produced in the world goes nowhere and fertilizes nothing?
(a) 99.9.
(b) 63.
(c) 80.
(d) 41.

11. In Part Three, Chapter 12, what time did Jahren get to the lab?
(a) 7:00 a.m.
(b) 7:30 a.m.
(c) 6:00 a.m.
(d) 10:00 a.m.

12. In Part Two: Chapter 11, when was there a war between species in Sitka, Alaska?
(a) 1980s.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1990s.

13. In Part Three: Chapter 11, how many months was Bill's salary guaranteed yearly from the University of Hawaii?
(a) 10.
(b) 9.
(c) 8.6.
(d) 7.5.

14. In Part Three: Chapter 6, where did Jahren and Clint take a trip in 2001?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Finland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Norway.

15. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what was the name of the young man who supervised the sweet potato experiment?
(a) Matt.
(b) Andrew.
(c) Alex.
(d) Jon.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what was the name of head of Jahren's department?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 12, how long did Bill curl up under his desk when he had a migraine?

3. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 13, what author wrote that "life and love are like butter and do not keep" (269)?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how many spruce seeds would Jahren use to test tree memory?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren's son say he was going to be when he grew up?

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