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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters 8-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?
(a) 17 years.
(b) 15 years.
(c) 14 years.
(d) 16 years.

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, when were Jahren's parents married?
(a) 1951.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1949.

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?
(a) 24 years.
(b) 18 years.
(c) 22 years.
(d) 10 years.

4. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren say that the insects that cause Dutch Elm disease came to the U.S.?
(a) 1917.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1928.

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much blood did Claude have to dispose of at the end of his shift?
(a) Gallons and gallons.
(b) 6-7 gallons.
(c) A few pints.
(d) 4-5 pints.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren get a scholarship to attend college?

2. In Part One: Chapter 3, how long can a cherry seed wait to grow?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, what type of car did Lydia say that a woman should never buy?

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

5. In Part One: Chapter 6, for how many weeks did Jahren and her students dig five to seven holes a day and stoop over them for hours?

(see the answer key)

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