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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 Two: Chapter 2, who did Bill and Jahren run gas samples for?
(a) Professor of Physics.
(b) A group of graduate students.
(c) Head graduate student.
(d) Professor of Chemistry.

2. In Part Two: Chapter 6, when did the vine kudzu arrive in Philadelphia?
(a) 1865.
(b) 1876.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1924.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how many times had Jahren already traveled the same places and run into poison ivy?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what can someone see who was in full-blown mania?
(a) Heaven.
(b) God.
(c) Devil.
(d) Other side of death.

5. In Part Three: Chapter 2, where were Jahren and Bill driving from?
(a) Peoria.
(b) Indianapolis.
(c) Ann Arbor.
(d) Cincinnati.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 2, when did the tree that the author remembered from her childhood die?

2. When was the Alaska Purchase?

3. In Part One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 4, how many people were in Bill and Jahren's group of scientists?

(see the answer key)

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