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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Which sister drops out of school, and when?
(a) Rose in graduate school.
(b) Rose as an undergrad.
(c) Bianca as an undergrad.
(d) Bianca in graduate school.

4. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(b) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.
(c) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.
(d) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.

5. Which of Linnaeus' students dies first?
(a) Forskal.
(b) Ternstrom.
(c) Falck.
(d) Rotheram.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Rose and Bianca get together again?

2. Where does Alec work before he goes to the Amazon?

3. What prevents Alec from giving up his taxidermy hobby?

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

5. What do both Jonathan and Ruby have?

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