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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 One: Chapter 10, how large was Jahren's lab?
(a) About 600 square feet.
(b) About 1,500 square feet.
(c) About 1,000 square feet.
(d) About 800 square feet.

2. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would a new air compressor cost?
(a) $1,500.
(b) $750.
(c) $1,200.
(d) $500.

3. In The Prologue, how much of the land on Earth used to be covered in forest?
(a) 1/3.
(b) 2/3.
(c) 1/2.
(d) 3/4.

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

5. In Part Two: Chapter 4, where did Bill and Jahren take a group of students to map soil?
(a) Atkinson County.
(b) Baker County.
(c) Decatur County.
(d) Gwinnett County.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many pounds of maple leaves contain enough sucrose to make three pecan pies?

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, how many seeds does a hackberry tree produce in its lifetime?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, who did Bill and Jahren run gas samples for?

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 1, how much were the mass spectrometers that Jahren had worth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In Part One: Chapter 9, how often would trees lose a limb?

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

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

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

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