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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. How much did it cost the United States to purchase Alaska?

2. In Part Three: Chapter 10, which of Bill's relatives died?

3. In Part Three: Chapter 10, what was the name of the new recruit that Jahren and Bill thought would be a good assistant?

4. In Part Three: Chapter 2, to what temperature can pure water be "super-colled" (192) and still remain an ice-free liquid?

5. In Part Three: Chapter 10, where did Jahren tell Bill to meet her?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In Part Two: Chapter 12, where was Jahren headed at the end of the chapter and with what?

3. In Part 3: Chapter 14, how had Jahren's work routine changed?

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

5. In Part Three: Chapter 13, what demands does Jahren say that a tree has?

6. In Part Three: Chapter 2, who was Ed and what did he study?

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

8. In Part Three: Chapter 6, how did Jahren and Clint meet and start dating?

9. In Part Three: Chapter 7, what type of growth curve did scientists discover in 1879 that corn had?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jahren wanted to be a scientist. Why did Jahren want to be a scientist? What did being a scientist mean to her?

Essay Topic 2

Jahren often compared herself to plants. In what ways did Jahren compare herself to plants? How does that become a theme in the book?

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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