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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 Three: Chapter 1, how often is a Pennsylvania-sized area of forest converted to city?
(a) About every 6 years.
(b) Every 5 years.
(c) 8 years.
(d) 3 years.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 9, how many days would it take to drive from Miami to Los Angeles on Interstate 10?
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 2.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what did Jahren say was Clint's mother's occupation?
(a) Obstetrician.
(b) Surgeon.
(c) Neurologist.
(d) Obstetrician.

4. In Part Three: Chapter 11, when did Jahren and her family move to Hawaii?
(a) 2006.
(b) 2008.
(c) 2007.
(d) 2005.

5. In Part Three: Chapter 6, what was Clint's field of study?
(a) Agronomy.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Chemistry.
(d) Physics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 8, how much did Jahren's baby weigh when he was born?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 10, when did Jahren win the Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where did a paleobotany professor collect the rocks that Jahrens helped unpack?

4. At the beginning of Part Three: Chapter 4, what was Jahren covered in?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what was the name of head of Jahren's department?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 11, why did Jahren move to Hawaii with her family?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 13, what demands does Jahren say that a tree has?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how did Jahren get poison ivy, and what were the side effects?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 2, what did Ed give Jahren?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 6, what was Clint's occupation, and how did he do his work?

6. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what is the hardest thing that Jahren said she had ever done and why?

7. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how would Jahren and BIll test new recruits to see if they would work out in the lab?

8. In Part Three: Chapter 4, what were Bill and Jahren studying?

9. In Part 3: Chapter 14, what does Jahren say about science and being an ant?

10. In Part Two: Chapter 11, what was the war between plants and insects that occurred in Washington in 1977 and what was the outcome?

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