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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 4, how old did Jahren say that Claude was when he arrived at the blood bank?
(a) 31.
(b) 29.
(c) 38.
(d) 28.

2. In Part One: Chapter 9, what tree does Jahren describe that was found in Honolulu at Manoa Road and Oahu Avenue?
(a) Eucalyptus.
(b) Almond.
(c) Monkeypod.
(d) Banyan.

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long did Jahren work in a pharmacy?
(a) 8 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 11 months.
(d) 9 months.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 7 when Bill was living in his van, at what time would he quit drinking liquids?
(a) 8:00 p.m.
(b) 9 p.m.
(c) 6 p.m.
(d) 7:30 p.m.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many pounds of maple leaves contain enough sucrose to make three pecan pies?
(a) 35.
(b) 40.
(c) 45.
(d) 25.

6. In Part One: Chapter 4, what type of car did Lydia say that a woman should never buy?
(a) Dodge.
(b) Chevrolet.
(c) Toyota.
(d) Ford.

7. In Part One: Chapter 10, how long did Jahren spend on her Ph.D?
(a) 3 years.
(b) 4 years.
(c) 5 years.
(d) 6 years.

8. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what color was Bill's hair?
(a) Salt and pepper.
(b) Black.
(c) Brown.
(d) Red.

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

10. In Part One: Chapter 1, what did Jahren's mother study before she was married?
(a) Botany.
(b) Physics.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Biology.

11. 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) 1908.
(b) 1882.
(c) 1893.
(d) 1904.

12. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how many McDonald's cheeseburgers did Bill buy when they were 25 cents a piece?
(a) 25.
(b) 60.
(c) 40 or so.
(d) About 50.

13. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?
(a) $25.
(b) $75.
(c) $30.
(d) $50.

14. 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) 50 times.
(b) 75 times.
(c) 150 times.
(d) 100 times.

15. In Part One: Chapter 1, when were Jahren's parents married?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1953.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1951.

Short Answer Questions

1. In The Prologue, how much of the land on Earth used to be covered in forest?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 7, how long was Jahren's commute from the place she rented to the university?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 7, where did Bill live after he quit living in his van?

4. In Part One: Chapter 8, what was the topic for Jahren's Ph.D thesis?

5. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?

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