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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, where did Jahren get a job after receiving her PhD?
(a) Georgia Tech.
(b) University of Iowa.
(c) University of Colorado.
(d) University of Michigan.

2. What was the name of the gorilla at Monkey Jungle who created crayon drawings?
(a) Duke.
(b) Goliath.
(c) King.
(d) Bongo.

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) 150 times.
(b) 75 times.
(c) 100 times.
(d) 50 times.

4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, in the South, when will leaves begin to grow?
(a) February.
(b) March.
(c) April.
(d) January.

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, where did Bill hide his hair when he cut it off?
(a) Sweet gum tree.
(b) In a drawer in the lab.
(c) Under the driver's seat of his van.
(d) Coffee can.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 1, when did the train pull away from the factory every evening?

2. In The Prologue, how long does the average one-celled ocean plant live?

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 8, when did Jahren ask to access the x-ray diffraction lab?

5. What did Jahren discover that the powder from ground hackberry was in Part One: Chapter 8?

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 Bill and Jahren decide to teach their soil class?

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

4. In Part One: Chapter 5, what did Jahren say about the deepest-growing roots?

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

6. In Part Two: Chapter 6, what does Jahren say about vines?

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 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?

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

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

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