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

2. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?
(a) Selling rights to artwork.
(b) Developing new medicinal oils.
(c) Selling rights to a new drug.
(d) Marketing artwork.

3. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?
(a) Hammarby.
(b) Rotterdam.
(c) Lappland.
(d) Uppsala.

4. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?
(a) She thinks he is asking to sleep with him.
(b) She thinks he is asking her to leave.
(c) She thinks he is asking her to marry him.
(d) She thinks he is a lonely old man.

5. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?
(a) None.
(b) An offer of a reward for evidence that swallows migrate.
(c) An offer of a reward for evidence of hibernating swallows.
(d) A friendly and encouraging response.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Mr. Barton just done for Alec?

2. What have Linnaeus' students done for him?

3. In what scientific principle does Wallace profess his faith when he is talking with Alec in Borneo?

4. Who does Linnaeus think has arrived with his daughter?

5. What does Zaga find in Joel's closet?

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