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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The English Pupil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?
(a) Mendel's garden.
(b) Mendel attacking a man.
(c) Mendel and his mistress.
(d) Mendel's wife with another man.

2. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?
(a) Tati.
(b) Captain McSweeney from the police.
(c) Richard.
(d) Her mother.

3. What has Linnaeus taught his students?
(a) That they are responsible for his success.
(b) That he will meet them again on the other side.
(c) How to carry on when he predeceases them.
(d) That classifications have to be clear and expressive.

4. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?
(a) They can be fertilized with pollen from other plants.
(b) They produce seeds without fertilization.
(c) They are hard to fertilize.
(d) They require precisely monitored conditions for fertilization.

5. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?
(a) He shows the mechanisms that prevent traits from being passed from one generation to another.
(b) He refines his experimental techniques and shows how hawkweeds can be fertilized in the garden.
(c) He shows how traits can be passed from one generation to another.
(d) He performs technical sound experiments, but does not get results.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Linnaeus' son when his son dies?

2. Where does Linnaeus begin to see his students?

3. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

4. When does "The English Pupil" take place?

5. Where is Mendel born?

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