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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 Part One: Chapter 4, how old was the author when she first performed an experiment because she needed the money?
(a) 19.
(b) 20.
(c) 21.
(d) 18.

2. In The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?
(a) 11 days.
(b) About 20 days.
(c) 3 days.
(d) Around 8 days.

3. In 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?
(a) 16 years.
(b) 14 years.
(c) 15 years.
(d) 17 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) 1924.
(c) 1911.
(d) 1928.

5. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far would Jahren and her father walk home after leaving his lab?
(a) 8 blocks.
(b) 2 miles.
(c) 1/2 mile.
(d) 12 blocks.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 6, how long did it take for lemons to ripen in a room flooded with ethylene gas?

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, what was the topic for Jahren's Ph.D thesis?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much money did Jahren waste when she removed a bottle from her workspace without sealing it?

4. 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?

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

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