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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 old did Jahren say that Claude was when he arrived at the blood bank?
(a) 31.
(b) 28.
(c) 38.
(d) 29.

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren get a scholarship to attend college?
(a) Southwest Minnesota State University.
(b) Winona State University.
(c) Minnesota State.
(d) University of Minnesota.

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren's great-grandparents come from?
(a) Norway.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Finland.
(d) Denmark.

5. In Part One: Chapter 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?
(a) Half a million dollars.
(b) $100,000.
(c) $250,000.
(d) Quarter of a million dollars.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long had Lydia been working 60 hours a week?

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

3. In The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?

4. 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?

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

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