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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Birds with No Feet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Ruby and Jonathan avoid talking about the evening that changes their lives?
(a) They are ashamed of themselves.
(b) They are not sure what had happened.
(c) They remember the evening too differently, and cannot agree about what had happened.
(d) They do not want to think about how much they have lost.

2. What is Christopher Billopp's relationship with Miss Juliet Colden?
(a) He is her student.
(b) He is teaching her.
(c) They are cousins.
(d) He is courting her.

3. Where does Mendel teach?
(a) At a high school.
(b) At the University of Berlin.
(c) At a monastery.
(d) At the Sorbonne.

4. What does Barton give Alec?
(a) Letters of introduction.
(b) Specimens.
(c) Passage to the Amazon.
(d) Money.

5. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?
(a) He threatens Antonia's life.
(b) He stabs Leiniger's hand.
(c) He slits Leiniger's throat.
(d) He throws Leiniger against the wall.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of Linnaeus' students dies first?

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

3. What do Ruby and Jonathan see when they sit on the patio now that the children are grown?

4. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?

5. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?

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