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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Littoral Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?
(a) Mendel and his mistress.
(b) Mendel's wife with another man.
(c) Mendel's garden.
(d) Mendel attacking a man.

2. What do Linnaeus' students begin to describe when he sees them?
(a) The place where he will rejoin them.
(b) The places they have seen.
(c) The success he will enjoy.
(d) The reputation he has built.

3. What do Ruby and Jonathan do when the tension builds between them?
(a) One of them goes to the island.
(b) One of them goes out to the garden.
(c) They tell a story about the past.
(d) They argue until they dispel the tension.

4. What has Linnaeus taught his students?
(a) That classifications have to be clear and expressive.
(b) That he will meet them again on the other side.
(c) That they are responsible for his success.
(d) How to carry on when he predeceases them.

5. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?
(a) Lapland.
(b) His daughter.
(c) Pea plants.
(d) His wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far into their course are Jonathan and Ruby before they have their first real conversation?

2. Why does Linnaeus ask his coachman to keep driving at the beginning of the story?

3. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?

4. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?

5. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?

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