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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 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren ask to access the x-ray diffraction lab?

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, how many years did Jahren's father teach introductory physics and earth science?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 5, during what months would a deciduous grow a canopy of leaves?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Part One: Part 4, what jobs did Jahren remembering have as an undergraduate?

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 6, when and how did Bill live in a hole?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?

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

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

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

9. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what did Jahren do to try to find time for everything she had to do?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahren stated that trees had budgets. In what way did trees have budgets? How did those budgets rule their lives? How did budgets rule Jahren’s life? How did being constrained by budgets affect the lives of trees and Jahren’s life?

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 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?

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