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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 14, what did Bill take Jahren outside to see?
(a) Double rainbow.
(b) Sun dog.
(c) Altocumulus clouds.
(d) Lenticular clouds.

2. What triggers hardening in trees?
(a) Shortening of the days.
(b) Colder days.
(c) Losing leaves.
(d) Colder nights.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what plant has a lazy-S development?
(a) Corn.
(b) Norway spruce.
(c) Wheat.
(d) Monterey pine.

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what did Jahren throw when she was told she could no longer go to her lab while she was on medical leave?
(a) Coffee cup.
(b) Pencils and pens.
(c) Paperweight.
(d) Book.

6. In Part Three: Chapter 4, what animal did Bill and Jahren see?
(a) Fox.
(b) Moose.
(c) Hare.
(d) Wolf.

7. In Part Three: Chapter 1, what city does Jahren say is the most tree-impoverished city on the East Coast?
(a) Baltimore.
(b) Boston.
(c) Bar Harbor.
(d) New York.

8. In Part Three: Chapter 8, how often would a doctor and group of medical students come to Jahren's room in the maternity ward?
(a) 2 hours.
(b) About every three hours.
(c) Every couple hours.
(d) 4 hours.

9. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what did Jahren say was Clint's mother's occupation?
(a) Neurologist.
(b) Obstetrician.
(c) Obstetrician.
(d) Surgeon.

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

11. In Part Two: Chapter 12, what did Jahren nickname one of her master's students who kept getting D-minuses?
(a) Maggie.
(b) Debbie.
(c) Patty.
(d) Marcie.

12. 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.

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

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

15. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what grade was Jahren's son in?
(a) Second.
(b) Third.
(c) Fourth.
(d) First.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 13, what author wrote that "life and love are like butter and do not keep" (269)?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what was the name of the young man who supervised the sweet potato experiment?

3. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 4, what did BIll do?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how many spruce seeds would Jahren use to test tree memory?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 9, if all the water on Earth was an Olympic-sized swimming pool, what would the amount available to plants be comparable to?

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