View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, how many seeds does a hackberry tree produce in its lifetime?
(a) Thousands.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Millions.
(d) Several million.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what was the name of an undergraduate lab assistant to worked for a summer at the Miami zoo?
(a) Amy.
(b) Karen.
(c) Megan.
(d) Lindsey.

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?
(a) $250,000.
(b) $100,000.
(c) Quarter of a million dollars.
(d) Half a million dollars.

5. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long did Jahren work in a pharmacy?
(a) 9 months.
(b) 11 months.
(c) 8 months.
(d) 6 months.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 7, where did Bill hide his hair when he cut it off?

2. In Part One: Chapter 4, how long had Lydia been working 60 hours a week?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 5, in Jahren's example of a maple tree, how much water would be required to absorb and evaporate to grow the leaves of the tree?

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how long did Jahren's parents save to buy the house they lived in?

5. In Part One: Chapter 2, when did the tree that the author remembered from her childhood die?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Part Two: Chapter 6, what does Jahren say about vines?

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

6. How did the author describe where she and her family lived in Part One: Chapter 1?

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

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

9. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren explain about the hackberry tree?

10. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say that a science professor did and did not worry about?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 985 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample