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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three: Chapters 12-Epilogue.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how many spruce seeds would Jahren use to test tree memory?
(a) 100.
(b) 55.
(c) 125.
(d) 75.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 6, where were Jahren and Clint married?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) California.
(c) Baltimore.
(d) Norway.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 11, when did Jahren and her family move to Hawaii?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2005.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2008.

4. In the Epilogue, when does Jahren say that a tree will get sick and need a tree doctor?
(a) 20-30 years.
(b) 40 years.
(c) 15-20 years.
(d) 25 years.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when did Bill and Jahren take a group of five students to learn to characterize and map soil?
(a) Winter 1997.
(b) Fall 1997.
(c) Summer 1997.
(d) Spring 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, when were Jahren's parents married?

2. How long did it take a huge team of students to harvest the sweet potatoes for the experiment in Part Three: Chapter 14?

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?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 2, where did Jahren meet Ed, her favorite "academic uncle" (180) after not seeing him for a number of years?

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

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