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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 4, what type of monkeys groomed each other at the Monkey Jungle?
(a) Gibbon.
(b) Diana.
(c) Howler.
(d) Tamarin.

2. In Part One: Chapter 3, how long can a cherry seed wait to grow?
(a) 30 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 100 years.

3. When would Jahren and her mother plant their garden every year?
(a) May 1.
(b) May 30.
(c) May 10.
(d) May 15.

4. 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?
(a) 3,700 gallons.
(b) About 7,500 gallons.
(c) 1,100 gallons.
(d) At least 8,000 gallons.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Part One: Chapter 9, how long can the stem of a tree be?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how many McDonald's cheeseburgers did Bill buy when they were 25 cents a piece?

4. 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?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. At the beginning of Part One: Part 4, what jobs did Jahren remembering have as an undergraduate?

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

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

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 8, how did Jahren feel when she discovered what the seed of a hackberry was comprised of?

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