View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Jonathan and Ruby laugh at what together at the marine biology station?
(a) The impossibility of a future together.
(b) The others' presentations.
(c) Their spouses' ignorance.
(d) Their children's cute moments.

3. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?
(a) He shows how traits can be passed from one generation to another.
(b) He shows the mechanisms that prevent traits from being passed from one generation to another.
(c) He refines his experimental techniques and shows how hawkweeds can be fertilized in the garden.
(d) He performs technical sound experiments, but does not get results.

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

5. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?
(a) Rotheram.
(b) Sara Lisa.
(c) Sophia.
(d) Pehr.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Antonia meet Richard?

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

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

4. What question does Dr. Jacques ask when he and Dr. Grant board the ship?

5. What does Nora neglect to give to Mr. Rowley for Susannah?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 405 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample