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

2. Mrs. Pearce and Sarah Anne Billopp agree on what during their conversation?
(a) Lay people should have faith in scientists and God.
(b) Scientific theories should give evidence of divine laws.
(c) Scientists should be morally upstanding people.
(d) Scientific theories should be based on evidence.

3. What do Rose and Bianca do at midnight?
(a) Go to the cliffs.
(b) Go to a bar.
(c) Go to the ocean.
(d) Go to the creek.

4. What does Sarah Anne think her brother thinks of her when she proposes to test the theory about swallows?
(a) She thinks that he is embarrassed by her.
(b) She thinks that he is judging her harshly.
(c) She thinks that he resents her for being smart.
(d) She thinks that he is envious of her intelligence.

5. How do Rose and Bianca spend the rest of the night?
(a) They stay up all night talking.
(b) They call their father and talk for hours.
(c) They go out late for more food.
(d) They do not remember.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Christopher Billopp's relationship with Miss Juliet Colden?

2. What does Rose's and Bianca's father's wife refuse to let them take?

3. What do Rose and Bianca hear while they are eating together?

4. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?

5. How is Linnaeus' health at the beginning of the story?

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