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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 One: Chapter 11, how long will a willow grow?
(a) 6 months.
(b) 8 weeks.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 4 months.

2. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what was the name of an undergraduate lab assistant to worked for a summer at the Miami zoo?
(a) Megan.
(b) Karen.
(c) Amy.
(d) Lindsey.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 8, how long could Jahren not take her medications when she was pregnant?
(a) 40.
(b) 18.
(c) 26 weeks.
(d) 31.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 2, where did Bill and Jahren get old camping equipment for the lab?
(a) Goodwill.
(b) Arc Thrift Shop.
(c) Habitat for Humanity Restore.
(d) Salvation Army.

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, when did Sydney Ringer discover that he could make a dead frog's heart beat by bathing it in sugared saline?
(a) 1904.
(b) 1908.
(c) 1882.
(d) 1893.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 10, where was Jahren traveling when she ran into poison ivy?

2. In Part One: Chapter 10, how long did Jahren spend on her Ph.D?

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

4. In Part Three: Chapter 2, how much did Ed's old mass spectrometer probably weigh?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what year did Jahren want to go back to at the end of the chapter?

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