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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 Otto Leiniger do in 1931?
(a) He takes over the nursery where Tati works.
(b) He publishes his response to Mendel's paper.
(c) He gives his daughter away in marriage.
(d) He emigrates to Paris.

2. What is the house like before the children are grown?
(a) It is always filled with children.
(b) It is always noisy with children coming and going.
(c) It is filled with children on weekends and quiet in between.
(d) It is quiet on weekends and filled with children all week.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?

2. What does Linnaeus do when Pehr tells him that they should return?

3. What has Linnaeus taught his students?

4. How old is Linnaeus' son when his son dies?

5. Where is Mendel born?

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