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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His lisp.
(b) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.
(c) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(d) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.

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

3. 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.

4. Where is Jonathan working when he meets Ruby?
(a) At a college in the Berkshires.
(b) At a college near Albany.
(c) At a university in Boston.
(d) At a college in Ithaca.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?

2. What do Ruby and Jonathan tell the children when they ask about what had happened on the island?

3. Who builds Hammarby?

4. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?

5. How far into their course are Jonathan and Ruby before they have their first real conversation?

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