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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 9-11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what can someone see who was in full-blown mania?
(a) God.
(b) Devil.
(c) Heaven.
(d) Other side of death.

2. At the beginning of Part Three: Chapter 4, what was Jahren covered in?
(a) Pollen.
(b) Clay.
(c) Dirt.
(d) Leaves.

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

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

5. In Part One: Chapter 8, how many seeds does a hackberry tree produce in its lifetime?
(a) Millions.
(b) Several million.
(c) Thousands.
(d) Hundreds of thousands.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, when did the train pull away from the factory every evening?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?

3. At the beginning of Part Two: Chapter 10, how long had Jahren been lying in bed crying?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 10, when did Jahren win the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how many times had Jahren already traveled the same places and run into poison ivy?

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