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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, 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.

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long had Lydia been working 60 hours a week?
(a) About 15 years.
(b) 24 years.
(c) 21 years.
(d) Almost 20 years.

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old was the author when she first performed an experiment because she needed the money?
(a) 21.
(b) 20.
(c) 19.
(d) 18.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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 long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?

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

5. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren get a scholarship to attend college?

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