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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 2, how long does Jahren say that some trees endure frozen weather every year?
(a) Around 3 months.
(b) 5 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) Up to 6 months.

2. What did Jahren discover that the powder from ground hackberry was in Part One: Chapter 8?
(a) Pumice.
(b) Opal.
(c) Moldavite.
(d) Obsidian.

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

4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how long will it take a tree to lose all of its leaves?
(a) 8 days.
(b) 2 weeks.
(c) 11 days.
(d) A week.

5. When would Jahren and her mother plant their garden every year?
(a) May 30.
(b) May 10.
(c) May 15.
(d) May 1.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Part Two: Chapter 10, how long had Jahren been lying in bed crying?

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old did Jahren say that Claude was when he arrived at the blood bank?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where did a paleobotany professor collect the rocks that Jahrens helped unpack?

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, what days of the week would psychiatric patients have ECT therapy?

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