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

2. Where does Mendel teach?
(a) At the University of Berlin.
(b) At a high school.
(c) At the Sorbonne.
(d) At a monastery.

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

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 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?

3. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

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

5. What radical text does Richard give his classes?

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