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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One: Chapters 4-7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?
(a) Birch.
(b) Spruce.
(c) Maple.
(d) Weeping willow.

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long did Jahren work in a pharmacy?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 11 months.

4. When Jahren was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, how many jobs did she hold in Part One: Chapter 4?
(a) 10.
(b) 14.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

5. In The Prologue, how much of the land on Earth used to be covered in forest?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 2/3.
(d) 3/4.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old did Jahren say that Claude was when he arrived at the blood bank?

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, what days of the week would psychiatric patients have ECT therapy?

3. 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?

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?

5. In Part One: Chapter 7, to what does Jahren compare the cotyledons starting up photosynthesis?

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