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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 The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?
(a) 11 days.
(b) 3 days.
(c) About 20 days.
(d) Around 8 days.

2. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how much money does Jahren say was available for curiosity-driven science?
(a) $7.3 billion.
(b) $8.1 billion.
(c) $40 million.
(d) $6 million.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how much did Bill and Jahren pay to get their group into Monkey Jungle?
(a) $61.
(b) $48.
(c) $57.
(d) $33.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?
(a) Doubled.
(b) 5%.
(c) Tripled.
(d) 40%

5. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far was Jahren's hometown from the Iowa border?
(a) 25 miles.
(b) 60 miles.
(c) 100 miles.
(d) 5 miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what was the name of an undergraduate lab assistant to worked for a summer at the Miami zoo?

2. In Part One: Chapter 5, what tree does Jahren say has the deepest-growing roots?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

4. In Part One: Chapter 1, how many years did Jahren's father teach introductory physics and earth science?

5. When Jahren was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, how many jobs did she hold in Part One: Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how does Jahren describe summers and winters in the South?

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

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

7. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say about a tree's budget?

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

9. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Bill and Jahren decide to teach their soil class?

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

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