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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 do both Jonathan and Ruby have?
(a) German cars.
(b) Overbearing mentors.
(c) Spouses and children.
(d) Tuberculosis.

2. What does Zaga find in Joel's closet?
(a) Baby clothes.
(b) Bills and letters.
(c) Artwork.
(d) Pictures from Chile.

3. What has Linnaeus taught his students?
(a) That they are responsible for his success.
(b) That classifications have to be clear and expressive.
(c) That he will meet them again on the other side.
(d) How to carry on when he predeceases them.

4. How does Sarah propose to test the theory of what happens to swallows in winter?
(a) She proposes they catch swallows and confine them under water.
(b) She proposes they dissect a swallow to see if it can breathe under water.
(c) She proposes to correspond with people in South America.
(d) She proposes they follow the swallows in the evenings.

5. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
(a) Mendel's horticultural secrets.
(b) The flaws in her husband's experimental techniques.
(c) Where she has kept Tati's papers.
(d) Where she has learned about Mendel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mrs. Pearce and Sarah Anne Billopp agree on what during their conversation?

2. What does Alec bring back from the Aru Islands?

3. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

4. What do Jonathan and Ruby do after their first real conversation?

5. What are the conditions like when Ruby and Jonathan get together?

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