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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 One: Chapter 10, what did Jahren do after exploding glass?

2. When would Jahren and her mother plant their garden every year?

3. In Part One: Chapter 2, when did the tree that the author remembered from her childhood die?

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Bill and Jahren design the lab?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 6, what does Jahren say about vines?

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

4. In Part One: Part 4, how did Lydia act when Jahren told her that she was quitting the pharmacy?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Jahren hope to get a new air compressor?

6. In Part Two: Chapter 8, how does a barrel cactus survive in the dessert?

7. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren explain about the hackberry tree?

8. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what were the pecularities of Bill's van?

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

10. In Part One: Chapter 10, what did the lab look like that Jahren had in Atlanta?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahren used analogies frequently to help readers understand concepts. Analyze how Jahren used analogies to explain the unfamiliar to readers. How did the analogies help readers understand difficult concepts?

Essay Topic 2

Jahren suffered from mental illness. How did Jahren first try to deal with her mania? How did the mania negatively influence her life? How did she get help? What was communicated about mental illness and how it affected everyday life?

Essay Topic 3

Jahren wanted to be a scientist. Why did Jahren want to be a scientist? What did being a scientist mean to her?

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