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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 One: Chapter 8, in 1995, where did Jahren study hackberry trees?
(a) Nebraska.
(b) Kansas.
(c) Colorado.
(d) Iowa.

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) 11 p.m.
(b) 9 p.m.
(c) 1 a.m.
(d) 3 a.m.

3. In Part One: Chapter 11, how long will a willow grow?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 6 months.
(c) 3 weeks.
(d) 8 weeks.

4. How old was Jahren in Part One: Chapter 10, when she became an assistant professor?
(a) 27.
(b) 28.
(c) 25.
(d) 26.

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, where did Lydia say that her ex-husband lived?
(a) Wisconsin.
(b) Iowa.
(c) North Dakota.
(d) South Dakota.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 1, in the South, when will leaves begin to grow?

2. In Part One: Chapter 6, for how many weeks did Jahren and her students dig five to seven holes a day and stoop over them for hours?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, what type of dog did Jahren have?

4. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?

5. In 2009, how long had Jahren been a professor?

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 3, what did the author say about seeds?

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

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

5. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Bill and Jahren design the lab?

6. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what were the pecularities of Bill's van?

7. In Part One: Chapter 1, what did the author's father do and for how long?

8. In Part One: Chapter 10, what did the lab look like that Jahren had in Atlanta?

9. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren say about becoming a scientist and being a scientist?

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

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