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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 1-4.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part Three: Chapter 2, what was the name of the guy who custom-made most of the instruments in Ed's lab?
(a) Peter.
(b) Henrik.
(c) Dietrich.
(d) William.

3. In Part One: Chapter 8, in 1995, where did Jahren study hackberry trees?
(a) Colorado.
(b) Nebraska.
(c) Kansas.
(d) Iowa.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?
(a) 9 p.m.
(b) 3 a.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 11 p.m.

5. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren say that the insects that cause Dutch Elm disease came to the U.S.?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1917.
(c) 1924.
(d) 1928.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 8, what was the topic for Jahren's Ph.D thesis?

2. In Part One: Chapter 3, how long can a cherry seed wait to grow?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 3, what is the biggest enemy of plants?

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 2, to what temperature can pure water be "super-colled" (192) and still remain an ice-free liquid?

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