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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 Two: Chapter 12, where did a paleobotany professor collect the rocks that Jahrens helped unpack?
(a) Caracas, Venezuela.
(b) Montevideo, Uruguay.
(c) Bogota, Colombia.
(d) Santiago, Chili.

2. How long did it take a huge team of students to harvest the sweet potatoes for the experiment in Part Three: Chapter 14?
(a) 5 days.
(b) About 4 days.
(c) Almost 3 days.
(d) 2 days.

3. In Part Three: Chapter 11, how many months was Bill's salary guaranteed yearly from the University of Hawaii?
(a) 8.6.
(b) 10.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.5.

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, where did Jahren and her husband go the year her son started school?
(a) Norway.
(b) Finland.
(c) Sweden.
(d) Denmark.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 14, until when did Bill and Jahren have funding?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 11, what town in Alaska does Jahren mention?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, when were the seeds collected that Jahren used to test tree memory?

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

5. At the end of Part Three: Chapter 13, what author wrote that "life and love are like butter and do not keep" (269)?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part Three: Chapter 4, where were Bill and Jahren spending the summer?

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

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 3, what is hardening?

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

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

8. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where was Jahren headed at the end of the chapter and with what?

9. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what is unusual about C-6?

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

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