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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 4, how many weeks did Jahren, Bill, and the paleontologists spend exhuming fossil trees?
(a) 4.
(b) 6.
(c) 8.
(d) 5.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 10, where did Jahren tell Bill to meet her?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Norway.
(c) Switzerland.
(d) Germany.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 2, how long does Jahren say that some trees endure frozen weather every year?
(a) Around 3 months.
(b) Up to 6 months.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 5 months.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where did a paleobotany professor collect the rocks that Jahrens helped unpack?
(a) Santiago, Chili.
(b) Bogota, Colombia.
(c) Montevideo, Uruguay.
(d) Caracas, Venezuela.

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

6. In Part Three: Chapter 1, how much protected forest is expected to be displaced during the next 40 years?
(a) Area the size of Pennsylvania.
(b) 250,000 acres.
(c) Area the size of Connecticut.
(d) 100,000 acres.

7. In Part Three: Chapter 2, where did Jahren meet Ed, her favorite "academic uncle" (180) after not seeing him for a number of years?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Denver.
(c) Dallas.
(d) Chicago.

8. In Part Three: Chapter 2, how much did Ed's old mass spectrometer probably weigh?
(a) 700 pounds.
(b) About 500 pounds.
(c) 1,200 pounds.
(d) At least a ton.

9. In Part Two: Chapter 10, where did Jahren get an edema from the poison ivy?
(a) Right temple.
(b) Back.
(c) Left calf.
(d) Shoulder.

10. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how many times had Jahren already traveled the same places and run into poison ivy?
(a) 3.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 2.

11. In Part Three: Chapter 8, how much did Jahren's baby weigh when he was born?
(a) 7.4 pounds.
(b) 6 pounds.
(c) 8.3 pounds.
(d) 9 pounds.

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

13. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how many hours did Jahren and Bill spend collecting moss samples in Ireland?
(a) 55.
(b) 45.
(c) 70.
(d) 60.

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

15. In Part Three: Chapter 9, how many days would it take to drive from Miami to Los Angeles on Interstate 10?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 10, when were the seeds collected that Jahren used to test tree memory?

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

3. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren's son say he was going to be when he grew up?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 14, until when did Bill and Jahren have funding?

5. At the beginning of Part Two: Chapter 10, how long had Jahren been lying in bed crying?

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