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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. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?
(a) Paris.
(b) Berlin.
(c) America.
(d) Prague.

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

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

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

5. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?
(a) She thinks he is asking her to leave.
(b) She thinks he is asking her to marry him.
(c) She thinks he is a lonely old man.
(d) She thinks he is asking to sleep with him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard say about Mendel when he (Richard) is courting his wife?

2. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?

3. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?

4. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

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

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