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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 Nageli suggest to Mendel?
(a) That he leave Brno and move to Munich.
(b) That he focus his research on hawkweeds.
(c) That he send Tati to study with him.
(d) That he turn his focus to peas.

2. What makes Alec's decision to collect specimens from South America seem promising?
(a) Specimens are being sold for good prices.
(b) Hardly any Amazonian species have been catalogued.
(c) No one is collecting Amazonian specimens.
(d) Political turmoil in the Amazon basin has just ended.

3. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(b) He remembers the man's mustache.
(c) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.
(d) He had classified his students according to eye color once.

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

5. What is soroche?
(a) Morning sickness.
(b) Dizziness.
(c) Anemia.
(d) Altitude sickness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?

2. What does Ruby tell her daughter when she asks who started the relationship between Ruby and Jonathan?

3. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?

4. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?

5. How old is Sophia when her brother, Linnaeus' son, dies?

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