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

2. In Part One: Chapter 6, for how many weeks did Jahren and her students dig five to seven holes a day and stoop over them for hours?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 4, what type of monkeys groomed each other at the Monkey Jungle?

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, when did Sydney Ringer discover that he could make a dead frog's heart beat by bathing it in sugared saline?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how much money does Jahren say was available for curiosity-driven science?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Part One: Part 4, what did Jahren say that working in a hospital taught her?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 7, what did Jahren do to try to find time for everything she had to do?

6. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say that a science professor did and did not worry about?

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

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

9. In Part One: Chapter 10, what did the lab look like that Jahren had in Atlanta?

10. In Part One: Chapter 2, what was the author's favorite childhood tree, and how did it die?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Jahren suffered from mental illness. How did Jahren first try to deal with her mania? How did the mania negatively influence her life? How did she get help? What was communicated about mental illness and how it affected everyday life?

Essay Topic 3

Jahren used foreshadowing in the book. In what way was some of the foreshadowing obscure? How did the foreshadowing become clear? How did the author use foreshadowing to make connections to her work and her life?

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