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

2. When does Mendel begin his experiments?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1865.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Antonia meet Richard?

2. Where does Anton Vaculik work?

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

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