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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 5, how many One A Day vitamins would it take to provide the magnesium that a maple tree needs?
(a) 14.
(b) 11.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, where did Jahren's great-grandparents come from?
(a) Finland.
(b) Denmark.
(c) Norway.
(d) Sweden.

3. In Part One: Chapter 5, how much greater can the surface area of the taproot be than all of the leaves on a tree?
(a) 75 times.
(b) 150 times.
(c) 50 times.
(d) 100 times.

4. In the Prologue, how many times more life is on land than was in the ocean?
(a) 30.
(b) 150.
(c) 300.
(d) 600.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 2, what type of dog did Jahren have?
(a) Chesapeake Bay retriever.
(b) Black Lab.
(c) Yellow Lab.
(d) German Shepherd.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 9, what tree does Jahren describe that was found in Honolulu at Manoa Road and Oahu Avenue?

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, in 1995, where did Jahren study hackberry trees?

3. In Part One: Chapter 10, how large was Jahren's lab?

4. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren say that the insects that cause Dutch Elm disease came to the U.S.?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Part Two: Chapter 8, how does a barrel cactus survive in the dessert?

7. In Part One: Chapter 8, how did Jahren feel when she discovered what the seed of a hackberry was comprised of?

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 1, what did the author's father do and for how long?

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

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