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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 6, how long did it take for lemons to ripen in a room flooded with ethylene gas?
(a) 10 hours.
(b) 24 hours.
(c) 8 hours.
(d) 15 hours.

2. 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?
(a) 9.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

3. In Part One: Chapter 2, when did the tree that the author remembered from her childhood die?
(a) 2009.
(b) 2011.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2013.

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what days of the week would psychiatric patients have ECT therapy?
(a) Mondays and Wednesdays.
(b) Wednesdays and Fridays.
(c) Tuesdays and Thursday.
(d) Mondays and Fridays.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far was Jahren's hometown from the Iowa border?

4. In Part One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?

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

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