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

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

3. 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) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?
(a) Hospital pharmacy.
(b) Secretary.
(c) Camera person.
(d) Proofreader.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, what did Jahren's mother study before she was married?

2. When would Jahren and her mother plant their garden every year?

3. In 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, where did Lydia say that her ex-husband lived?

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much blood did Claude have to dispose of at the end of his shift?

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