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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 14, until when did Bill and Jahren have funding?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what plant has a lazy-S development?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 12, how many radish plants had been growing for 21 days?

4. In Part Two: Chapter 9, what can someone see who was in full-blown mania?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where did a paleobotany professor collect the rocks that Jahrens helped unpack?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part Three: Chapter 2, what did Ed give Jahren?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what did Jahren do after putting her son to bed?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what does Jahren say about being a scientist after her son was born?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 9, what does Jahren say about cells and water?

5. In Part Two: Chapter 9, how does Jahren describe full-blown mania?

6. In Part 3: Chapter 14, what does Jahren say about science and being an ant?

7. In Part Three: Chapter 4, what were Bill and Jahren studying?

8. In Part Three: Chapter 12, what is unusual about C-6?

9. In Part Three: Chapter 8, what is the hardest thing that Jahren said she had ever done and why?

10. In Part Three: Chapter 3, what is hardening?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A friend of Jahren’s academic advisor in California named Ed, gave Jahren supplies and equipment from his lab when he retired. Why was the transfer of tools important to Jahren? What did the tools and equipment symbolize?

Essay Topic 2

Jahren made a discovery when she was working on her dissertation. What discovery did Jahren make? How did the discovery affect Jahren and validate her as a scientist?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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