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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where is Mendel born?
(a) Moravia.
(b) Budapest.
(c) Prague.
(d) Paris.

3. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.
(b) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.
(c) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(d) His lisp.

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

5. Who builds Hammarby?
(a) Linnaeus' family.
(b) Linnaeus.
(c) Sara Lisa's family.
(d) Rotheram.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anton Vaculik work?

2. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?

3. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?

4. What is in Linnaeus' museum?

5. What happens after Antonia's daughters grow up and move away?

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