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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?

2. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?

3. When does Mendel begin his experiments?

4. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?

5. What is in Linnaeus' museum?

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