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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. When Jahren was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, how many jobs did she hold in Part One: Chapter 4?
2. In Part One: Chapter 1, what did Jahren's mother study before she was married?
3. In Part Two: Chapter 5, how many pounds of maple leaves contain enough sucrose to make three pecan pies?
4. In Part One: Chapter 8, when would Jahren access the x-ray diffraction lab?
5. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Part One: Part 4, how did Lydia act when Jahren told her that she was quitting the pharmacy?
2. In Part One: Chapter 9, how often would trees lose a limb?
3. In Part Two: Chapter 6, what does Jahren say about vines?
4. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how does Jahren describe summers and winters in the South?
5. In Part Two: Chapter 4, how did Jahren describe a gorilla and his chamber?
6. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Bill and Jahren design the lab?
7. How did the author describe where she and her family lived in Part One: Chapter 1?
8. In Part One: Chapter 10, what did the lab look like that Jahren had in Atlanta?
9. In Part Two: Chapter 5, what does Jahren say about a tree's budget?
10. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren explain about the hackberry tree?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Jahren stated that trees had budgets. In what way did trees have budgets? How did those budgets rule their lives? How did budgets rule Jahren’s life? How did being constrained by budgets affect the lives of trees and Jahren’s life?
Essay Topic 2
Jahren discussed plant and human reproduction. What did she communicate about the possibilities and price of reproduction for plants and for humans?
Essay Topic 3
On a trip to California, the van Jahren borrowed from the university was damaged in an accident. How was the van damaged in an accident? How did the driver at the time accept responsibility? How did Bill respond to the accident? What did Jahren learn about loyalty from the accident?
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