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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 5-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 4, what type of monkeys groomed each other at the Monkey Jungle?
(a) Gibbon.
(b) Diana.
(c) Tamarin.
(d) Howler.

2. In Part One: Chapter 3, how long can a cherry seed wait to grow?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 20 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 30 years.

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren ask to access the x-ray diffraction lab?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1995.

5. In Part One: Chapter 7, to what does Jahren compare the cotyledons starting up photosynthesis?
(a) An old car starting on a winter morning.
(b) Jump starting a truck.
(c) A cook mixing batter.
(d) Starting a campfire.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 8, when would Jahren access the x-ray diffraction lab?

4. How old was Jahren in Part One: Chapter 10, when she became an assistant professor?

5. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?

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