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

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 1, when were Jahren's parents married?
(a) 1949.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1951.
(d) 1953.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 5, during what months would a deciduous grow a canopy of leaves?
(a) April to July.
(b) March to August.
(c) April to June.
(d) March to July.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when did Bill and Jahren take a group of five students to learn to characterize and map soil?
(a) Summer 1997.
(b) Winter 1997.
(c) Fall 1997.
(d) Spring 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 4, what days of the week would psychiatric patients have ECT therapy?

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old was the author when she first performed an experiment because she needed the money?

4. In Part One: Chapter 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?

5. How tall will hackberry trees grow to be?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. In Part One: Chapter 3, what did the author say about seeds?

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

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 8, how does a barrel cactus survive in the dessert?

10. In Part One: Chapter 2, what was the author's favorite childhood tree, and how did it die?

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