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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 10, where did Jahren get a job after receiving her PhD?

2. In Part One: Chapter 9, what tree does Jahren describe that was found in Honolulu at Manoa Road and Oahu Avenue?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 2, where did Bill and Jahren get old camping equipment for the lab?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how much would the analyses that Bill and Jahren did for free have cost if ordered commercially?

5. In Part One: Chapter 5, what tree does Jahren say has the deepest-growing roots?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Bill and Jahren design the lab?

2. At the beginning of Part One: Part 4, what jobs did Jahren remembering have as an undergraduate?

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

4. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Bill and Jahren decide to teach their soil class?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what were the pecularities of Bill's van?

6. In Part One: Chapter 1, what did the author's father do and for how long?

7. In Part One: Chapter 9, how did Jahrens reveal that stems functioned?

8. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say about a tree's budget?

9. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren explain about the hackberry tree?

10. In Part Two: Chapter 8, how does a barrel cactus survive in the dessert?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Bill had followed Jahren from lab to lab. What type of person is Bill? What type of relationship do he and Jahren have? Why is Bill important to Jahren’s work?

Essay Topic 2

Jahren worried that she might not be able to be a parent. What healing did Jahren’s son bring for her? How was Jahren’s son different from her? What did Jahren discover about parenthood and her ability to be a parent?

Essay Topic 3

Jahren made a discovery when she was working on her dissertation. What discovery did Jahren make? How did the discovery affect Jahren and validate her as a scientist?

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