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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Littoral Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Jonathan and Ruby have their first real conversation?
(a) When they review each other's articles.
(b) When they are both assigned to kitchen duty.
(c) When they meet at their sons' baseball game.
(d) When they are assigned to the littoral zone.

2. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He had classified his students according to eye color once.
(b) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(c) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.
(d) He remembers the man's mustache.

3. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?
(a) That he focus his research on hawkweeds.
(b) That he leave Brno and move to Munich.
(c) That he send Tati to study with him.
(d) That he turn his focus to peas.

4. How is Linnaeus' health at the beginning of the story?
(a) He has had a number of strokes and is half paralyzed.
(b) He is young and in love.
(c) He is in the prime of his health.
(d) His heart is failing.

5. What do Jonathan and Ruby compare as they start their first real conversation?
(a) Seaweed samples.
(b) Stories about their professors.
(c) Sores and poison ivy.
(d) Fish samples.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?

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

3. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?

4. Jonathan and Ruby laugh at what together at the marine biology station?

5. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

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