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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Rare Bird.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Zaga find in Joel's closet?
(a) Pictures from Chile.
(b) Bills and letters.
(c) Baby clothes.
(d) Artwork.

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

4. Jonathan and Ruby laugh at what together at the marine biology station?
(a) The impossibility of a future together.
(b) The others' presentations.
(c) Their children's cute moments.
(d) Their spouses' ignorance.

5. To whom does Zaga rent her condominium?
(a) A pair of brokers.
(b) An actuary and his wife.
(c) A lepidopterist.
(d) An evolutionary biologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruby, Jonathan, and the children talk about what when the children visit?

2. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?

3. Whose theories are Christopher Billopp, his sister Sarah Anne, and their guests discussing?

4. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

5. When does Mendel begin his experiments?

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