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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruby tell her daughter when she asks who started the relationship between Ruby and Jonathan?
(a) She says that Jonathan had coerced her.
(b) She says that Jonathan had started it.
(c) She says that it had happened to both of them.
(d) She says that she had started it.

2. What are the conditions like when Ruby and Jonathan get together?
(a) Ruby sleep walks into Jonathan's room.
(b) All of the other researchers are in the evening talks, and they are suddenly alone.
(c) There is a storm and the electricity is out.
(d) They stayed in the library to work together.

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

4. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?
(a) Sara Ann.
(b) Anna Lisa.
(c) Ingrid.
(d) Sigrid.

5. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?
(a) Rotterdam.
(b) Uppsala.
(c) Hammarby.
(d) Lappland.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does "The English Pupil" take place?

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

3. What is the house like now that the children are grown?

4. What are Linnaeus' students holding when he sees them as he is leaving?

5. Where does Anton Vaculik work?

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