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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 Three: Chapter 4, how many people were in Bill and Jahren's group of scientists?
(a) 9.
(b) 12.
(c) 15.
(d) 13.

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much blood did Claude have to dispose of at the end of his shift?
(a) 4-5 pints.
(b) A few pints.
(c) Gallons and gallons.
(d) 6-7 gallons.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how many McDonald's cheeseburgers did Bill buy when they were 25 cents a piece?
(a) 25.
(b) About 50.
(c) 60.
(d) 40 or so.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 7, how long was Jahren's commute from the place she rented to the university?
(a) 35 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 55 minutes.
(d) 45 minutes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?

2. What did Jahren discover that the powder from ground hackberry was in Part One: Chapter 8?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 10, who was driving when there was an accident with the van?

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what type of car did Lydia say that a woman should never buy?

5. In Part One: Chapter 5, how much greater can the surface area of the taproot be than all of the leaves on a tree?

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