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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. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 13, what author wrote that "life and love are like butter and do not keep" (269)?
(a) Kristen Wolf.
(b) Sheri Holman.
(c) Marge Piercy.
(d) Jenny Erpenbeck.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what grade was Jahren's son in?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how many spruce seeds would Jahren use to test tree memory?
(a) 125.
(b) 100.
(c) 75.
(d) 55.

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what did Jahren hit when she was driving?
(a) Traffic sign.
(b) Streetlight.
(c) Postal box.
(d) Traffic signal.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 12, where did Jahren shop for groceries and lunch?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 9, how many days would it take to drive from Miami to Los Angeles on Interstate 10?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 2, when did Ed begin his work on the ups and down of sea level over thousands of years?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 2, where were Jahren and Bill driving from?

5. When was the Alaska Purchase?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jahren decide about her ability to cope with a child after her son was born in Part Three: Chapter 8?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 2, what did Ed give Jahren?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what is discussed about tree memory?

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, why did Jahren like being in Norway?

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

7. In Part Three: Chapter 2, who was Ed and what did he study?

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

9. In Part Two: Chapter 11, what was the war between plants and insects that occurred in Washington in 1977 and what was the outcome?

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

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