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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Marburg Sisters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Linnaeus has forgotten about which student?
(a) Falck.
(b) Thunberg.
(c) Forskal.
(d) Ternstrom.

2. What is in Linnaeus' museum?
(a) An exhibition of zoological specimens.
(b) Fossils and stones.
(c) An herbarium and insect collection.
(d) Pieces of early human skeletons.

3. What do Rose and Bianca study in college?
(a) Zoology.
(b) Biochemistry.
(c) Romance languages.
(d) Literature.

4. What rule of Rose's separates Rose from Bianca?
(a) Always tell the full truth.
(b) Never talk indoors.
(c) Never talk about the past.
(d) Always try to agree.

5. What makes Alec's decision to collect specimens from South America seem promising?
(a) No one is collecting Amazonian specimens.
(b) Specimens are being sold for good prices.
(c) Hardly any Amazonian species have been catalogued.
(d) Political turmoil in the Amazon basin has just ended.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?

2. What do Ruby and Jonathan tell the children when they ask about what had happened on the island?

3. How is Linnaeus' health at the beginning of the story?

4. Where does Sophia tell Linnaeus they will go next?

5. What is soroche?

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