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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 8, how long could Jahren not take her medications when she was pregnant?
(a) 40.
(b) 31.
(c) 26 weeks.
(d) 18.

2. In Part Three: Chapter 2, how much did Ed's old mass spectrometer probably weigh?
(a) 700 pounds.
(b) At least a ton.
(c) About 500 pounds.
(d) 1,200 pounds.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 12, when would Jahren awaken at 2:30 a.m. and then get agitated because she could not get back to sleep?
(a) 1999.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1997.
(d) 1990.

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 5, what type of flower does Jahren mention can only reproduce with that flower?
(a) Fig.
(b) Olive.
(c) Tulip.
(d) Daisy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 10, where did Jahren, BIll, and the students stay after the van crashed?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 12, what did Jahren nickname one of her master's students who kept getting D-minuses?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how many spruce seeds would Jahren use to test tree memory?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 10, who was driving when there was an accident with the van?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 4, how many people were in Bill and Jahren's group of scientists?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part Two: Chapter 10, what did the van look like after it was wrecked during the trip to a conference in California?

3. In Part 3: Chapter 14, how had Jahren's work routine changed?

4. In the Epilogue, what is Jahren's personal request to the reader?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what does Jahren say about being a scientist after her son was born?

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

7. In Part Three: Chapter 9, what does Jahren say about cells and water?

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

9. In Part Three: Chapter 1, what does Jahren say about Baltimore and trees?

10. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren do after putting her son to bed?

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