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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Marburg Sisters.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.
(b) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.
(c) They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(d) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.

3. What response does Zaga get from Dr. Sepulveda when she writes to him after returning home from Chile?
(a) She never hears back.
(b) He writes her with long stories about his life.
(c) She hears that Dr. Sepulveda has died.
(d) She hears that Dr. Sepulveda has moved.

4. Why does Linnaeus ask his coachman to keep driving at the beginning of the story?
(a) He is dying and likes the long drives.
(b) He is uncertain about where he is going.
(c) He is anxious to get to the laboratory.
(d) He is resigned to living without his family.

5. Where is Bianca when Rose wakes up the next morning?
(a) Out with the lab director.
(b) Gone.
(c) Out getting food.
(d) On the way home.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Otto Leiniger ask Antonia to do when he finds her alone in the greenhouse?

3. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?

4. What answer did Sarah Anne finally get from the person to whom she had written during the dinner party?

5. Richard is sensitive about what?

(see the answer key)

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