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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 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?
(a) 24 years.
(b) 18 years.
(c) 10 years.
(d) 22 years.

2. In what states did Jahren study hackberry trees in Part One: Chapter 8?
(a) Minnesota and South Dakota.
(b) California and Nevada.
(c) Michigan and Wisconsin.
(d) North Dakota and South Dakota.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?
(a) $75.
(b) $30.
(c) $25.
(d) $50.

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) 8.
(b) 11.
(c) 14.
(d) 6.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would a new air compressor cost?
(a) $1,500.
(b) $1,200.
(c) $750.
(d) $500.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, how much money did Jahren waste when she removed a bottle from her workspace without sealing it?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much did Jahren say that she paid for her dog?

3. 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?

4. In Part One: Chapter 6, when did Jahren become the graduate student assistant instructor in the Central Valley of California?

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

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 Two: Chapter 7, what did Jahren do to try to find time for everything she had to do?

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

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

6. In Part One: Part 4, what did Jahren say that working in a hospital taught her?

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

8. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Jahren hope to get a new air compressor?

9. In Part One: Chapter 1, why did the author's mother have to quit college?

10. In Part One: Chapter 1, how did the author get money for her work, and why was that stressful for her?

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