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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do Ruby and Jonathan do when the tension builds between them?
(a) One of them goes out to the garden.
(b) They argue until they dispel the tension.
(c) They tell a story about the past.
(d) One of them goes to the island.

4. Why do Ruby and Jonathan avoid talking about the evening that changes their lives?
(a) They are ashamed of themselves.
(b) They do not want to think about how much they have lost.
(c) They are not sure what had happened.
(d) They remember the evening too differently, and cannot agree about what had happened.

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

6. What is the house like now that the children are grown?
(a) The children bring their friends and it is always busy.
(b) The children have left and it is always quiet.
(c) The children come and go as they please.
(d) Ruby and Jonathan travel too much to be home.

7. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?
(a) Up on the hill.
(b) Next to the kitchen.
(c) Adjacent to his study.
(d) Near town.

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

9. What are Linnaeus' students holding when he sees them as he is leaving?
(a) The gifts he has given them.
(b) The plants he has named after them.
(c) The books they have published.
(d) The animals they have named for him.

10. Where does Linnaeus' coachman take him when they arrive at Hammarby?
(a) The bedroom.
(b) The greenhouse.
(c) The kitchen.
(d) The stables.

11. 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.

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

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

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

15. What happens after Antonia's daughters grow up and move away?
(a) She and her husband move to Brno.
(b) She leaves her husband.
(c) Her world goes gray for a year.
(d) She throws dinner parties for the alumni of the college where Richard is teaching.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

2. Richard is sensitive about what?

3. What does Linnaeus do when Pehr tells him that they should return?

4. When do Jonathan and Ruby have their first real conversation?

5. Who does Antonia think Otto Leiniger is?

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