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

2. Linnaeus has forgotten about which student?
(a) Thunberg.
(b) Falck.
(c) Ternstrom.
(d) Forskal.

3. What does the man who arrives with Sophia tell Linnaeus?
(a) That he and Sophia are getting married.
(b) That he needs his approval to continue his studies.
(c) That it is time to go.
(d) That Sophia is expecting a baby.

4. What does Tati tell Antonia ruined Gregor Mendel's life?
(a) Jealousy.
(b) Ferns.
(c) Hawkweeds.
(d) A woman.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?

2. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?

3. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?

4. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?

5. Where does Mendel teach?

(see the answer key)

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