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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Linnaeus do when Pehr tells him that they should return?
(a) He dies.
(b) He gets up and walks outside.
(c) He smokes his pipe.
(d) He pulls the sled outside and locks the door.

3. Jonathan asks Ruby about what when she calls?
(a) Her tenure review.
(b) Her work.
(c) His letter.
(d) Her divorce.

4. When does Mendel begin his experiments?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1888.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1856.

5. How does Ruby get away from her house to call Jonathan?
(a) She tells her husband that she wantz to get some groceries.
(b) She tells her husband she needz something from the office.
(c) She tells her husband that she has been doing some late night field work.
(d) She tells her husband that they need office supplies.

6. Where is Mendel born?
(a) Budapest.
(b) Prague.
(c) Paris.
(d) Moravia.

7. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?
(a) Uppsala.
(b) Lappland.
(c) Rotterdam.
(d) Hammarby.

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

9. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(b) He remembers the man's mustache.
(c) He had classified his students according to eye color once.
(d) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.

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

11. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?
(a) Ingrid.
(b) Sara Ann.
(c) Sigrid.
(d) Anna Lisa.

12. What have Linnaeus' students done for him?
(a) They have cared for him in his old age.
(b) They have done his work of gathering and classifying plants and animals.
(c) They have married his daughters.
(d) They have written his books and articles.

13. What do Jonathan and Ruby do after their first real conversation?
(a) Work together all the time.
(b) Sit together at presentations.
(c) Phone their spouses and confess.
(d) Skip all talks and assignments.

14. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?
(a) Captain McSweeney from the police.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Richard.
(d) Tati.

15. When do Jonathan and Ruby have their first real conversation?
(a) When they meet at their sons' baseball game.
(b) When they are both assigned to kitchen duty.
(c) When they review each other's articles.
(d) When they are assigned to the littoral zone.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who builds Hammarby?

2. Who does Linnaeus think has arrived with his daughter?

3. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?

4. How is Linnaeus' health at the beginning of the story?

5. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

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