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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 4, what was Jahren's favorite job as an undergraduate in college?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 4, where did Bill and Jahren take a group of students to map soil?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how much did Bill and Jahren pay to get their group into Monkey Jungle?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what was the name of an undergraduate lab assistant to worked for a summer at the Miami zoo?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, how long was Jahren's commute from the place she rented to the university?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 8, how did Jahren feel when she discovered what the seed of a hackberry was comprised of?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 6, what does Jahren say about vines?

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

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

5. How did the author describe where she and her family lived in Part One: Chapter 1?

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

7. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?

8. In Part One: Chapter 9, how often would trees lose a limb?

9. In Part One: Chapter 1, how did the author get money for her work, and why was that stressful for her?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahren used analogies frequently to help readers understand concepts. Analyze how Jahren used analogies to explain the unfamiliar to readers. How did the analogies help readers understand difficult concepts?

Essay Topic 2

Jahren wrote her story from a first-person point of view. How does the use of the first-person point of view help readers identify and empathize with Jahren? How does the point of view affect what readers know about and think of Jahren?

Essay Topic 3

Jahren used personification in the novel, especially when referring to plants. How did Jahren use personification when describing plants? How did the use of personification help readers identify with plants and eliminate any distance between the topic and readers?

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