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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 3, how long can a cherry seed wait to grow?
(a) 20 years.
(b) 30 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 5 years.

2. In The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?
(a) About 20 days.
(b) 11 days.
(c) Around 8 days.
(d) 3 days.

3. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?
(a) 150.
(b) 300.
(c) 600.
(d) 30.

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

5. In Part One: Chapter 1, when were Jahren's parents married?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1947.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jahren was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, how many jobs did she hold in Part One: Chapter 4?

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far would Jahren and her father walk home after leaving his lab?

3. In Part One: Chapter 6, when did Jahren become the graduate student assistant instructor in the Central Valley of California?

4. 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?

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?

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