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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Behavior of the Hawkweeds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Carl Nageli?
(a) Mendel's father-in-law.
(b) Mendel's lover's husband.
(c) A botanist in Munich.
(d) A policeman in Brno.

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

3. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?
(a) Prague.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) America.

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

5. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?
(a) He shows him a tame fox and other animals.
(b) He attacks him.
(c) He runs and hides.
(d) He brings him back to his house and interrogates him about what he has seen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?

2. Who does Antonia think Otto Leiniger is?

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

4. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?

5. Where is Mendel born?

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