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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what was the name of Jahren's dog?
(a) Coco.
(b) Petra.
(c) Reba.
(d) Fish.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 5, how does Jahren say that Magnolia, maple, dogwood, willow, cherry, and apple trees spread pollen?
(a) Bees.
(b) Flies and beetles.
(c) Wind.
(d) Birds.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how old was Bill's father when he died?
(a) 95.
(b) 76.
(c) 89.
(d) 68.

4. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what did Jahren hit when she was driving?
(a) Postal box.
(b) Traffic sign.
(c) Traffic signal.
(d) Streetlight.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what can someone see who was in full-blown mania?
(a) Other side of death.
(b) Heaven.
(c) Devil.
(d) God.

6. In Part Three: Chapter 6, where did Jahren and Clint take a trip in 2001?
(a) Denmark.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Finland.
(d) Norway.

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

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

9. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 13, what author wrote that "life and love are like butter and do not keep" (269)?
(a) Marge Piercy.
(b) Jenny Erpenbeck.
(c) Sheri Holman.
(d) Kristen Wolf.

10. In Part Three: Chapter 10, when did Jahren win the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1999.
(c) 2006.
(d) 2001.

11. How long did it take a huge team of students to harvest the sweet potatoes for the experiment in Part Three: Chapter 14?
(a) 5 days.
(b) About 4 days.
(c) Almost 3 days.
(d) 2 days.

12. In the Epilogue, how many stumps have been created since 1990?
(a) 11 billion.
(b) 3 million.
(c) 5 million.
(d) 8 billion.

13. In Part Three: Chapter 5, how much pollen is necessary to fertilize an ovum and develop into a seed?
(a) 1 grain.
(b) 3 grains.
(c) 4 grains.
(d) 11 grains.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 6, how old was Jahren when she met Clint?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what was the name of the new recruit that Jahren and Bill thought would be a good assistant?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, which of Bill's relatives died?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 2, what was the name of the guy who custom-made most of the instruments in Ed's lab?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 9, what percent of trees that make it to their first birthday will not make it to their second?

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