3. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?
(a) He tells them the author's life story.
(b) He describes the author's rivalry with another scientist.
(c) He tells them about the author's flight from his homeland.
(d) He describes the author's marriage.

4. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?
(a) He threatens Antonia's life.
(b) He throws Leiniger against the wall.
(c) He stabs Leiniger's hand.
(d) He slits Leiniger's throat.

5. Which of Linnaeus' students dies first?
(a) Forskal.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Falck.
(d) Ternstrom.

6. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(b) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.
(c) His lisp.
(d) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.

7. What do Linnaeus' students begin to describe when he sees them?
(a) The success he will enjoy.
(b) The place where he will rejoin them.
(c) The places they have seen.
(d) The reputation he has built.

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

9. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?
(a) He takes over the nursery where Tati works.
(b) He gives his daughter away in marriage.
(c) He publishes his response to Mendel's paper.
(d) He emigrates to Paris.

10. What do Ruby and Jonathan tell the children when they ask about what had happened on the island?
(a) They say that they cannot remember.
(b) They say that they had known what they were doing was wrong.
(c) They describe sitting together and falling in love.
(d) They do not give details.

11. How old is Linnaeus' son when his son dies?
(a) Twenty seven years old.
(b) Five years old.
(c) Two years old.
(d) Thirty seven years old.

12. When does Antonia meet Richard?
(a) She is writing her thesis and he is one of her students.
(b) She is working at the GE plant and he is finishing his thesis.
(c) She is living with a boyfriend and he is working as a gardener.
(d) She is reading in a cafe where he is having lunch with a friend.

13. Ruby, Jonathan, and the children talk about what when the children visit?
(a) Their plans for the future.
(b) Life before Ruby and Jonathan get together.
(c) Which children need to be picked up or dropped off, and where.
(d) The past.

14. Where is Ruby working when she meets Jonathan?
(a) At a college in Ithaca.
(b) At a college near Albany.
(c) At a college in the Berkshires.
(d) At a university in Boston.

15. How is Linnaeus' health at the beginning of the story?
(a) He has had a number of strokes and is half paralyzed.
(b) He is in the prime of his health.
(c) His heart is failing.
(d) He is young and in love.