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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 Three: Chapter 4, what animal did Bill and Jahren see?
2. In Part Three: Chapter 4, how many people were in Bill and Jahren's group of scientists?
3. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren's son say he was going to be when he grew up?
4. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what tool did Bill and Jahren take from the orchid experiment?
5. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where did a paleobotany professor collect the rocks that Jahrens helped unpack?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Jahren decide about her ability to cope with a child after her son was born in Part Three: Chapter 8?
2. In Part Three: Chapter 2, what did Ed give Jahren?
3. In Part Three: Chapter 6, how did Jahren and Clint meet and start dating?
4. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what is the hardest thing that Jahren said she had ever done and why?
5. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how did Jahren get poison ivy, and what were the side effects?
6. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what is unusual about C-6?
7. In Part Three: Chapter 5, how does Jahren explain that some trees spread their pollen?
8. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren do after putting her son to bed?
9. In Part 3: Chapter 14, what does Jahren say about science and being an ant?
10. In the Epilogue, what is Jahren's personal request to the reader?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
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 3
Jahren discussed plant and human reproduction. What did she communicate about the possibilities and price of reproduction for plants and for humans?
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