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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Linnaeus has forgotten about which student?
(a) Forskal.
(b) Ternstrom.
(c) Thunberg.
(d) Falck.
2. What do Jonathan and Ruby do after their first real conversation?
(a) Phone their spouses and confess.
(b) Sit together at presentations.
(c) Skip all talks and assignments.
(d) Work together all the time.
3. What does Otto Leiniger ask Antonia to do when he finds her alone in the greenhouse?
(a) He asks her to make love with him.
(b) He asks her to show him the garden.
(c) He asks her to tell him about her father.
(d) He asks her to lean over and water some plants.
4. What does Tati tell Antonia ruined Gregor Mendel's life?
(a) Ferns.
(b) Hawkweeds.
(c) Jealousy.
(d) A woman.
5. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He remembers the man's mustache.
(b) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.
(c) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(d) He had classified his students according to eye color once.
6. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?
(a) Near town.
(b) Adjacent to his study.
(c) Up on the hill.
(d) Next to the kitchen.
7. What do Ruby and Jonathan do when the tension builds between them?
(a) They tell a story about the past.
(b) One of them goes out to the garden.
(c) They argue until they dispel the tension.
(d) One of them goes to the island.
8. What is in Linnaeus' museum?
(a) Fossils and stones.
(b) Pieces of early human skeletons.
(c) An herbarium and insect collection.
(d) An exhibition of zoological specimens.
9. What radical text does Richard give his classes?
(a) Copies of a paper on human sexuality.
(b) Copies of a paper on training dogs.
(c) Copies of a paper on hybridization of peas.
(d) Copies of a paper on the eugenics.
10. When does Antonia meet Richard?
(a) She is reading in a cafe where he is having lunch with a friend.
(b) She is writing her thesis and he is one of her students.
(c) She is working at the GE plant and he is finishing his thesis.
(d) She is living with a boyfriend and he is working as a gardener.
11. Where does Anton Vaculik work?
(a) On a farm.
(b) In a laboratory.
(c) At a foundry.
(d) At a nursery.
12. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?
(a) She thinks he is asking her to marry him.
(b) She thinks he is a lonely old man.
(c) She thinks he is asking to sleep with him.
(d) She thinks he is asking her to leave.
13. When does Mendel begin his experiments?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1888.
14. Jonathan and Ruby are looking at what when they have their first real conversation?
(a) Tide pools.
(b) Fish specimens.
(c) Linnaeus' books.
(d) Hawkweed samples.
15. Where does Linnaeus' coachman take him when they arrive at Hammarby?
(a) The kitchen.
(b) The greenhouse.
(c) The stables.
(d) The bedroom.
Short Answer Questions
1. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?
2. What is the house like now that the children are grown?
3. What do Linnaeus' students begin to describe when he sees them?
4. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?
5. Who is Carl Nageli?
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