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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 2, what type of tree did the author remember from her childhood?

2. In Part Two: Chapter 4, when Bill and Jahren took a group of students to map soil, what time did they eat dinner?

3. In Part One: Chapter 2, when did the tree that the author remembered from her childhood die?

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 2, where did Bill and Jahren get old camping equipment for the lab?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part One: Chapter 7, what did Jahren say that the job of leaves was, and what was the process used for that job?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 about a tree's budget?

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

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 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?

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