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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?
(a) Uppsala.
(b) Hammarby.
(c) Rotterdam.
(d) Lappland.

2. What role does Sarah Anne play when the guests are talking?
(a) Mother.
(b) Hostess.
(c) Princess.
(d) Guest.

3. What is in Linnaeus' museum?
(a) An herbarium and insect collection.
(b) Fossils and stones.
(c) An exhibition of zoological specimens.
(d) Pieces of early human skeletons.

4. Why does Linnaeus ask his coachman to keep driving at the beginning of the story?
(a) He is uncertain about where he is going.
(b) He is anxious to get to the laboratory.
(c) He is dying and likes the long drives.
(d) He is resigned to living without his family.

5. What news do Rose and Bianca have from their father?
(a) That he is thinking about selling the winery.
(b) That he is thinking about selling their grandfather's printmaking shop.
(c) That he is ill.
(d) That he is thinking about selling the apothecary shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. What theory in particular are they discussing at the beginning of "Rare Bird?"

2. What are Rose and Bianca like in their youth?

3. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?

4. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?

5. Why has Zaga agreed to raise Joel's children?

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