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

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

3. 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 learned about Mendel.
(c) Mendel's horticultural secrets.
(d) Where she has kept Tati's papers.

4. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?
(a) He likes to think about how their children have her eyes.
(b) He wants her to know that he still loves her more than science.
(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.

5. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?
(a) He shows the mechanisms that prevent traits from being passed from one generation to another.
(b) He performs technical sound experiments, but does not get results.
(c) He shows how traits can be passed from one generation to another.
(d) He refines his experimental techniques and shows how hawkweeds can be fertilized in the garden.