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

2. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.
(b) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.
(c) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(d) His lisp.

3. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?
(a) He wants her to know that he still loves her more than science.
(b) He likes to think about how their children have her eyes.
(c) She knows the secret of how Mendel had been led astray by another scientist.
(d) She makes subtle jokes about how he delivers the material.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Mendel begin his experiments?

2. What does Tati tell Antonia ruined Gregor Mendel's life?

3. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

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

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

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