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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?
(a) They can be fertilized with pollen from other plants.
(b) They produce seeds without fertilization.
(c) They are hard to fertilize.
(d) They require precisely monitored conditions for fertilization.

2. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?
(a) He attacks him.
(b) He brings him back to his house and interrogates him about what he has seen.
(c) He runs and hides.
(d) He shows him a tame fox and other animals.

3. Who is Carl Nageli?
(a) Mendel's father-in-law.
(b) A policeman in Brno.
(c) A botanist in Munich.
(d) Mendel's lover's husband.

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

5. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?
(a) He likes to think about how their children have her eyes.
(b) She makes subtle jokes about how he delivers the material.
(c) He wants her to know that he still loves her more than science.
(d) She knows the secret of how Mendel had been led astray by another scientist.

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

7. 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) She throws dinner parties for the alumni of the college where Richard is teaching.
(d) Her world goes gray for a year.

8. What does the man who arrives with Sophia tell Linnaeus?
(a) That it is time to go.
(b) That he needs his approval to continue his studies.
(c) That he and Sophia are getting married.
(d) That Sophia is expecting a baby.

9. Where does Linnaeus begin to see his students?
(a) To the left of the fireplace.
(b) In the cemetary during their funerals.
(c) In his mind's eye.
(d) In the living room at Hammarby.

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

11. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?
(a) Mendel's garden.
(b) Mendel and his mistress.
(c) Mendel attacking a man.
(d) Mendel's wife with another man.

12. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?
(a) Pehr.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Sophia.
(d) Sara Lisa.

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

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

15. What are the conditions like when Ruby and Jonathan get together?
(a) There is a storm and the electricity is out.
(b) All of the other researchers are in the evening talks, and they are suddenly alone.
(c) They stayed in the library to work together.
(d) Ruby sleep walks into Jonathan's room.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in Linnaeus' museum?

2. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?

3. Linnaeus has forgotten about which student?

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

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

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