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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part Two: Chapter 6, when did the vine kudzu arrive in Philadelphia?
(a) 1924.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1876.
(d) 1904.

3. In Part One: Chapter 6, for how many weeks did Jahren and her students dig five to seven holes a day and stoop over them for hours?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 6.
(d) 5.

4. 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.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 2, who did Bill and Jahren run gas samples for?
(a) Professor of Physics.
(b) Head graduate student.
(c) Professor of Chemistry.
(d) A group of graduate students.

6. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far was Jahren's hometown from the Iowa border?
(a) 60 miles.
(b) 100 miles.
(c) 5 miles.
(d) 25 miles.

7. 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) 1904.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1908.
(d) 1893.

8. In Part One: Chapter 6, when did Jahren become the graduate student assistant instructor in the Central Valley of California?
(a) 1994.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1990.
(d) 1991.

9. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?
(a) 5%.
(b) Doubled.
(c) 40%
(d) Tripled.

10. In Part Two: Chapter 2, what type of dog did Jahren have?
(a) German Shepherd.
(b) Yellow Lab.
(c) Black Lab.
(d) Chesapeake Bay retriever.

11. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren get a scholarship to attend college?
(a) University of Minnesota.
(b) Minnesota State.
(c) Winona State University.
(d) Southwest Minnesota State University.

12. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much did Jahren say that she paid for her dog?
(a) $60.
(b) $50.
(c) $25.
(d) $30.

13. 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) 150 times.
(b) 50 times.
(c) 100 times.
(d) 75 times.

14. In Part One: Chapter 4, where did Lydia say that her ex-husband lived?
(a) Iowa.
(b) Wisconsin.
(c) South Dakota.
(d) North Dakota.

15. How tall will hackberry trees grow to be?
(a) 40 feet tall.
(b) 60 feet tall.
(c) 25 feet tall.
(d) 30 feet tall.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how much money does Jahren say was available for curiosity-driven science?

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren say that the insects that cause Dutch Elm disease came to the U.S.?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 3, what is the biggest enemy of plants?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how much did Bill and Jahren pay to get their group into Monkey Jungle?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, where did Bill hide his hair when he cut it off?

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