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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. How long after they leave the marine biology station does Ruby call Jonathan?
(a) Twelve days.
(b) Two days.
(c) A week.
(d) Two weeks.

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

3. What role does Sarah Anne play when the guests are talking?
(a) Mother.
(b) Guest.
(c) Hostess.
(d) Princess.

4. How does Zaga spend her days after she moves downtown?
(a) She cleans out the closets.
(b) She works at the art museum.
(c) She arranges the distribution of her husband's paintings.
(d) She does not see anyone.

5. To whom does Zaga rent her condominium?
(a) An actuary and his wife.
(b) A lepidopterist.
(c) An evolutionary biologist.
(d) A pair of brokers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?

2. What is soroche?

3. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?

4. When does Alec meet Wallace?

5. What does Sarah Anne think her brother thinks of her when she proposes to test the theory about swallows?

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