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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 One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?
(a) Birch.
(b) Spruce.
(c) Maple.
(d) Weeping willow.

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

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, where did Jahren and her husband go the year her son started school?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Finland.
(c) Norway.
(d) Sweden.

4. 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.

5. When Jahren was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, how many jobs did she hold in Part One: Chapter 4?
(a) 10.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 14.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 2, how much did Ed's old mass spectrometer probably weigh?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 10, where did Jahren get an edema from the poison ivy?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, of the million seeds dropped on Earth every year, what percent will begin to grow?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how old was Bill's father when he died?

5. In the Epilogue, when does Jahren say that a tree will get sick and need a tree doctor?

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