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

2. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?
(a) That he leave Brno and move to Munich.
(b) That he send Tati to study with him.
(c) That he focus his research on hawkweeds.
(d) That he turn his focus to peas.

3. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?
(a) He emigrates to Paris.
(b) He publishes his response to Mendel's paper.
(c) He gives his daughter away in marriage.
(d) He takes over the nursery where Tati works.

4. Who is Anton Vaculik?
(a) Richard's wife's father.
(b) Richard's maternal grandfather.
(c) Richard's wife's grandfather.
(d) Richard's maternal uncle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?

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

3. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?

4. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?

5. Where is Mendel born?

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