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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 10, how large was Jahren's lab?
(a) About 800 square feet.
(b) About 1,500 square feet.
(c) About 1,000 square feet.
(d) About 600 square feet.

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

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

6. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much money did Jahren waste when she removed a bottle from her workspace without sealing it?
(a) At least $1,000.
(b) $625.
(c) About $1,500.
(d) $750.

7. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren say that the insects that cause Dutch Elm disease came to the U.S.?
(a) 1911.
(b) 1928.
(c) 1917.
(d) 1924.

8. In Part One: Chapter 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?
(a) $250,000.
(b) Quarter of a million dollars.
(c) Half a million dollars.
(d) $100,000.

9. In Part One: Chapter 8, when would Jahren access the x-ray diffraction lab?
(a) 6 p.m.
(b) 10 a.m.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dawn.

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

11. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would a new air compressor cost?
(a) $1,200.
(b) $500.
(c) $1,500.
(d) $750.

12. In Part One: Chapter 9, how long can the stem of a tree be?
(a) 100 yards.
(b) 50 feet.
(c) 75 feet.
(d) 200 yards.

13. In Part Two: Chapter 7, how long did Bill's van have to cool down in order to start it?
(a) 45 minutes.
(b) 90 minutes.
(c) About 2 hours.
(d) At least 3 hours.

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

15. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?
(a) 11 p.m.
(b) 3 a.m.
(c) 9 p.m.
(d) 1 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?

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

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 8, how old is a barrel cactus be that is tall enough to touch your knee?

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