Ship Fever and Other Stories Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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Ship Fever and Other Stories Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jonathan asks Ruby about what when she calls?
(a) Her work.
(b) Her divorce.
(c) His letter.
(d) Her tenure review.

2. Who is Carl Nageli?
(a) Mendel's lover's husband.
(b) A policeman in Brno.
(c) Mendel's father-in-law.
(d) A botanist in Munich.

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

4. How does Ruby get away from her house to call Jonathan?
(a) She tells her husband she needz something from the office.
(b) She tells her husband that they need office supplies.
(c) She tells her husband that she wantz to get some groceries.
(d) She tells her husband that she has been doing some late night field work.

5. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?
(a) That he leave Brno and move to Munich.
(b) That he send Tati to study with him.
(c) That he turn his focus to peas.
(d) That he focus his research on hawkweeds.

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

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

8. Jonathan and Ruby are looking at what when they have their first real conversation?
(a) Tide pools.
(b) Fish specimens.
(c) Hawkweed samples.
(d) Linnaeus' books.

9. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?
(a) She makes subtle jokes about how he delivers the material.
(b) He likes to think about how their children have her eyes.
(c) She knows the secret of how Mendel had been led astray by another scientist.
(d) He wants her to know that he still loves her more than science.

10. Where does Linnaeus' coachman take him when they arrive at Hammarby?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The greenhouse.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The stables.

11. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?
(a) He shows him a tame fox and other animals.
(b) He brings him back to his house and interrogates him about what he has seen.
(c) He runs and hides.
(d) He attacks him.

12. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?
(a) It is a model of good science.
(b) It should have been censored.
(c) It is irresponsible and dangerous thinking.
(d) It is going to revolutionize science.

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

14. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?
(a) Their families' happiness and ignorance.
(b) Being exposed by the icthyologist.
(c) Explaining their exhaustion.
(d) Confessing their affair.

15. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?
(a) Sophia.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Sara Lisa.
(d) Pehr.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Linnaeus think has arrived with his daughter?

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

3. What does Sophia do while Pehr and the other man push the sleigh outside?

4. When does Antonia meet Richard?

5. What is the house like now that the children are grown?

(see the answer keys)

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