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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Behavior of the Hawkweeds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
(a) Where she has kept Tati's papers.
(b) The flaws in her husband's experimental techniques.
(c) Where she has learned about Mendel.
(d) Mendel's horticultural secrets.

2. Who is Anton Vaculik?
(a) Richard's wife's grandfather.
(b) Richard's wife's father.
(c) Richard's maternal uncle.
(d) Richard's maternal grandfather.

3. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His lisp.
(b) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(c) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.
(d) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.

4. Who is Richard's wife in "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds?"
(a) Leni.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Antonia.
(d) Anna.

5. What happens after Antonia's daughters grow up and move away?
(a) Her world goes gray for a year.
(b) She leaves her husband.
(c) She throws dinner parties for the alumni of the college where Richard is teaching.
(d) She and her husband move to Brno.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?

2. What radical text does Richard give his classes?

3. What does Richard say about Mendel when he (Richard) is courting his wife?

4. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?

5. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?

(see the answer key)

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