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

2. What does Otto Leiniger ask Antonia to do when he finds her alone in the greenhouse?
(a) He asks her to make love with him.
(b) He asks her to lean over and water some plants.
(c) He asks her to show him the garden.
(d) He asks her to tell him about her father.

3. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?
(a) He describes the author's rivalry with another scientist.
(b) He tells them the author's life story.
(c) He tells them about the author's flight from his homeland.
(d) He describes the author's marriage.

4. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
(a) Mendel's horticultural secrets.
(b) The flaws in her husband's experimental techniques.
(c) Where she has learned about Mendel.
(d) Where she has kept Tati's papers.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When does Anton Vaculik leave his homeland?

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

4. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

5. Who is Richard's wife in "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds?"

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