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

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 11, how long will a willow grow?
(a) 3 weeks.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 8 weeks.

4. 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?
(a) 1893.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1904.
(d) 1908.

5. In 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?
(a) 15 years.
(b) 16 years.
(c) 14 years.
(d) 17 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what plant has a lazy-S development?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, who did Bill and Jahren run gas samples for?

4. In Part One: Chapter 9, how long can the stem of a tree be?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 2, to what temperature can pure water be "super-colled" (192) and still remain an ice-free liquid?

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