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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. How tall will hackberry trees grow to be?
(a) 30 feet tall.
(b) 60 feet tall.
(c) 40 feet tall.
(d) 25 feet tall.
2. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what type of vehicle did Jahren purchase when a "check engine" (131) light came on in the first car she ever owned?
(a) Jeep.
(b) Chevy.
(c) Subaru.
(d) Ford.
3. In Part One: Chapter 8, what was the topic for Jahren's Ph.D thesis?
(a) Ash trees.
(b) Hackberry tree.
(c) Elm trees.
(d) Hickory trees.
4. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many One A Day vitamins would it take to provide the magnesium that a maple tree needs?
(a) 11.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 14.
5. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren ask to access the x-ray diffraction lab?
(a) 1996.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Part Two: Chapter 1, in the South, when will leaves begin to grow?
2. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when did Bill and Jahren take a group of five students to learn to characterize and map soil?
3. In The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?
4. In what states did Jahren study hackberry trees in Part One: Chapter 8?
5. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how much money does Jahren say was available for curiosity-driven science?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One: Chapter 7, what did Jahren say that the job of leaves was, and what was the process used for that job?
2. In Part One: Part 4, what did Jahren say that working in a hospital taught her?
3. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?
4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how does Jahren describe summers and winters in the South?
5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what were the pecularities of Bill's van?
6. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren explain about the hackberry tree?
7. In Part One: Chapter 1, what did the author's father do and for how long?
8. In Part One: Part 4, how did Lydia act when Jahren told her that she was quitting the pharmacy?
9. In Part One: Chapter 1, why did the author's mother have to quit college?
10. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say that a science professor did and did not worry about?
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