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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 10, how long did Jahren spend on her Ph.D?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 1, how much did income tax collected increase in Georgia between the years 1990 and 2000?

4. In Part One: Chapter 4, what type of car did Lydia say that a woman should never buy?

5. When would Jahren and her mother plant their garden every year?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part One: Chapter 8, what did Jahren say about becoming a scientist and being a scientist?

3. In Part One: Part 4, how did Lydia act when Jahren told her that she was quitting the pharmacy?

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Part Two: Chapter 2, how did Jahren hope to get a new air compressor?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 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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