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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 One: Chapter 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?
(a) $100,000.
(b) Half a million dollars.
(c) $250,000.
(d) Quarter of a million dollars.

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, in 1995, where did Jahren study hackberry trees?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Iowa.

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?
(a) Proofreader.
(b) Camera person.
(c) Hospital pharmacy.
(d) Secretary.

5. 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) About 11 years old.
(c) About 15 years old.
(d) More than 25 years old.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, where did Lydia say that her ex-husband lived?

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old did Jahren say that Claude was when he arrived at the blood bank?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many pounds of maple leaves contain enough sucrose to make three pecan pies?

4. In Part One: Chapter 11, how long will a willow grow?

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 6, when and how did Bill live in a hole?

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

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

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

6. In Part One: Chapter 2, what was the author's favorite childhood tree, and how did it die?

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

8. In Part One: Chapter 5, what did Jahren say about the deepest-growing roots?

9. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Bill and Jahren decide to teach their soil class?

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

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