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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 shows him a tame fox and other animals.
(b) He runs and hides.
(c) He brings him back to his house and interrogates him about what he has seen.
(d) He attacks him.

2. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?
(a) It is going to revolutionize science.
(b) It is a model of good science.
(c) It is irresponsible and dangerous thinking.
(d) It should have been censored.

3. When does Antonia meet Richard?
(a) She is writing her thesis and he is one of her students.
(b) She is working at the GE plant and he is finishing his thesis.
(c) She is reading in a cafe where he is having lunch with a friend.
(d) She is living with a boyfriend and he is working as a gardener.

4. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?
(a) He threatens Antonia's life.
(b) He stabs Leiniger's hand.
(c) He slits Leiniger's throat.
(d) He throws Leiniger against the wall.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Richard is sensitive about what?

2. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

3. Where does Mendel teach?

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

5. Where is Mendel born?

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