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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. At the end of Part Two: Chapter 12, where did Jahrens get jobs for herself and Bill?
(a) Brown.
(b) Columbia.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Johns Hopkins.

2. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 13, what author wrote that "life and love are like butter and do not keep" (269)?
(a) Marge Piercy.
(b) Kristen Wolf.
(c) Sheri Holman.
(d) Jenny Erpenbeck.

3. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what year did Jahren want to go back to at the end of the chapter?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1997.
(c) 1995.
(d) 1994.

4. In Part Three: Chapter 12, how did Jahren go to her lab at the end of the chapter?
(a) Moped.
(b) Motorcycle.
(c) Car.
(d) Bicycle.

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, how old was Bill's father when he died?
(a) 76.
(b) 89.
(c) 68.
(d) 95.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 5, what percent of pollen produced in the world goes nowhere and fertilizes nothing?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 5, how does Jahren say that Magnolia, maple, dogwood, willow, cherry, and apple trees spread pollen?

3. When was the Alaska Purchase?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what did Bill take Jahren outside to see?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 11, how many months was Bill's salary guaranteed yearly from the University of Hawaii?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 5, how does Jahren explain that some trees spread their pollen?

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

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

4. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what type of growth curve did scientists discover in 1879 that corn had?

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

6. In Part Three: Chapter 6, how did Jahren and Clint meet and start dating?

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

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

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

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

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