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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 One: Chapter 10, what did Jahren do after exploding glass?
(a) Chew her knuckles.
(b) Scratch her arms.
(c) Bite her nails.
(d) Dig her fingers into her palms.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 5, what percent of pollen produced in the world goes nowhere and fertilizes nothing?
(a) 41.
(b) 63.
(c) 99.9.
(d) 80.

3. In Part One: Chapter 5, how much greater can the surface area of the taproot be than all of the leaves on a tree?
(a) 100 times.
(b) 50 times.
(c) 150 times.
(d) 75 times.

4. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what plant has a lazy-S development?
(a) Corn.
(b) Norway spruce.
(c) Monterey pine.
(d) Wheat.

5. In Part One: Chapter 6, how long did it take for lemons to ripen in a room flooded with ethylene gas?
(a) 15 hours.
(b) 10 hours.
(c) 8 hours.
(d) 24 hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, when did Sydney Ringer discover that he could make a dead frog's heart beat by bathing it in sugared saline?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long did Jahren work in a pharmacy?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what can someone see who was in full-blown mania?

5. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 4, what did BIll do?

(see the answer key)

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