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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The English Pupil.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Linnaeus ask his coachman to keep driving at the beginning of the story?
(a) He is dying and likes the long drives.
(b) He is uncertain about where he is going.
(c) He is resigned to living without his family.
(d) He is anxious to get to the laboratory.

3. When does Mendel begin his experiments?
(a) 1888.
(b) 1859.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1865.

4. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?
(a) He brings him back to his house and interrogates him about what he has seen.
(b) He shows him a tame fox and other animals.
(c) He runs and hides.
(d) He attacks him.

5. Where does Linnaeus begin to see his students?
(a) In his mind's eye.
(b) In the cemetary during their funerals.
(c) In the living room at Hammarby.
(d) To the left of the fireplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Antonia think Otto Leiniger is?

2. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?

3. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

4. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?

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

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