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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Birds with No Feet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Wallace doing when Alec finds him in Borneo?
(a) He is depressed about losing specimens to flooding.
(b) He is nearly starved.
(c) He is fit and working hard.
(d) He has the ague.

2. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?
(a) He tells them about the author's flight from his homeland.
(b) He describes the author's rivalry with another scientist.
(c) He describes the author's marriage.
(d) He tells them the author's life story.

3. What has Alec been collecting in Sarawak?
(a) Beetles.
(b) Birds.
(c) Apes.
(d) Butterflies.

4. When does "The English Pupil" take place?
(a) July, 1859.
(b) April, 1836.
(c) December, 1777.
(d) October, 1829.

5. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?
(a) He emigrates to Paris.
(b) He takes over the nursery where Tati works.
(c) He gives his daughter away in marriage.
(d) He publishes his response to Mendel's paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wallace respond when Alec writes to him?

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

3. What prevents Alec from giving up his taxidermy hobby?

4. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?

5. What response does Zaga get from Dr. Sepulveda when she writes to him after returning home from Chile?

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