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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 8, what was the topic for Jahren's Ph.D thesis?

2. In Part One: Chapter 1, how far would Jahren and her father walk home after leaving his lab?

3. In Part One: Chapter 4, how old did Jahren say that Claude was when he arrived at the blood bank?

4. 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?

5. How tall will hackberry trees grow to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how does Jahren describe summers and winters in the South?

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

3. In Part One: Chapter 6, when and how did Bill live in a hole?

4. In Part One: Chapter 3, what did the author say about seeds?

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

6. In Part Two: Chapter 3, what symbiotic relationship do some trees and fungi have?

7. In Part One: Chapter 1, why did the author's mother have to quit college?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

Jahren made a comment that “it takes a long time to turn into what you’re supposed to be” (265). What did Jahren mean when she made that comment? How did it take her a long time to become the person she was supposed to be? What helped her become the person she was meant to be?

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