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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much blood did Claude have to dispose of at the end of his shift?
(a) Gallons and gallons.
(b) A few pints.
(c) 6-7 gallons.
(d) 4-5 pints.

4. In Part One: Chapter 8, how many hours was Bill paid to work in Jahren's advisor's laboratory?
(a) 40.
(b) 10.
(c) 25.
(d) 20.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 6, how long can a kudzu vine grow?
(a) 210 feet.
(b) 60 feet.
(c) 100 feet.
(d) 80 feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 5, what tree does Jahren say has the deepest-growing roots?

2. What did Jahren discover that the powder from ground hackberry was in Part One: Chapter 8?

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren get a scholarship to attend college?

4. In Part One: Chapter 10, where did Jahren get a job after receiving her PhD?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how much money does Jahren say was available for curiosity-driven science?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Bill and Jahren decide to teach their soil class?

2. In Part One: Chapter 9, how often would trees lose a limb?

3. In Part One: Chapter 9, how did Jahrens reveal that stems functioned?

4. In Part One: Part 4, how did Lydia act when Jahren told her that she was quitting the pharmacy?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 3, what symbiotic relationship do some trees and fungi have?

6. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how does Jahren describe summers and winters in the South?

7. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?

8. In Part One: Chapter 7, what did Jahren say that the job of leaves was, and what was the process used for that job?

9. In Part One: Chapter 6, when and how did Bill live in a hole?

10. In Part One: Chapter 5, what did Jahren say about the deepest-growing roots?

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