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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?
(a) It is going to revolutionize science.
(b) It should have been censored.
(c) It is irresponsible and dangerous thinking.
(d) It is a model of good science.

4. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?
(a) Jonathan's mother.
(b) Jonathan's daughter.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Jonathan's wife.

5. What is the house like before the children are grown?
(a) It is always noisy with children coming and going.
(b) It is always filled with children.
(c) It is filled with children on weekends and quiet in between.
(d) It is quiet on weekends and filled with children all week.

6. What does Ruby tell her daughter when she asks who started the relationship between Ruby and Jonathan?
(a) She says that Jonathan had started it.
(b) She says that she had started it.
(c) She says that it had happened to both of them.
(d) She says that Jonathan had coerced her.

7. Where does Sophia tell Linnaeus they will go next?
(a) Home.
(b) Lappland.
(c) Hammarby.
(d) Uppsala.

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

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

10. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?
(a) His daughter.
(b) Pea plants.
(c) Lapland.
(d) His wife.

11. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?
(a) That he turn his focus to peas.
(b) That he send Tati to study with him.
(c) That he leave Brno and move to Munich.
(d) That he focus his research on hawkweeds.

12. Which of Linnaeus' students has been most faithful about writing?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Thunberg.
(c) Falck.
(d) Hasselquist.

13. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?
(a) Sara Lisa.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Linnaeus himself.
(d) Hasselquist.

14. Linnaeus has forgotten about which student?
(a) Falck.
(b) Forskal.
(c) Thunberg.
(d) Ternstrom.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Linnaeus taught his students?

2. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?

3. What do Jonathan and Ruby compare as they start their first real conversation?

4. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

5. What have Linnaeus' students done for him?

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