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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 11, how many months was Bill's salary guaranteed yearly from the University of Hawaii?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what did Jahren hit when she was driving?

3. In Part Two: Chapter 10, who was driving when there was an accident with the van?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 5, what percent of pollen produced in the world goes nowhere and fertilizes nothing?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 14, what was the name of the young man who supervised the sweet potato experiment?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what is discussed about tree memory?

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, why did Jahren like being in Norway?

6. In Part Two: Chapter 10, how did Jahren get poison ivy, and what were the side effects?

7. In Part Three: Chapter 4, where were Bill and Jahren spending the summer?

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

9. In Part Three: Chapter 6, what was Clint's occupation, and how did he do his work?

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

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?

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

The book could be considered a coming of age story. In what way is the book a coming of age story? How did Jahren mature and come of age in the narrative?

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