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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.
(b) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.
(c) They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(d) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.

2. What are Linnaeus' students holding when he sees them as he is leaving?
(a) The books they have published.
(b) The gifts he has given them.
(c) The plants he has named after them.
(d) The animals they have named for him.

3. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He remembers the man's mustache.
(b) He had classified his students according to eye color once.
(c) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(d) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.

4. Where does the second scene of "Rare Bird" open?
(a) On London Bridge.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the laboratory.
(d) In the church.

5. How do Rose and Bianca keep in touch with each other after they visit at Rose's lab?
(a) A year passes before they talk again.
(b) They talk on the phone infrequently for a year.
(c) They see each other a few times a month.
(d) They exchange impersonal letters.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Sarah Anne write a letter when she is alone?

2. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?

3. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?

4. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?

5. Where does Linnaeus begin to see his students?

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