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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ship Fever.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why has Zaga agreed to raise Joel's children?
(a) Because she loves Joel.
(b) Because she is too old to have children.
(c) Because she has lost her own baby.
(d) Because she cannot get pregnant.

3. The pieces of straw in the water off the quarantine island are a sign of what?
(a) Illness on the ships.
(b) Island agriculture.
(c) A recent wreck.
(d) Cleaning the ships.

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

5. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?
(a) He is torn between his work and his emotions.
(b) He is not guilty because that is his work.
(c) He is glad to kill the specimens and turn them into scientific facts.
(d) He is guilty and it starts to depress him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the house like before the children are grown?

2. What is the house like now that the children are grown?

3. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?

4. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?

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

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