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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?
(a) She thinks he is asking her to leave.
(b) She thinks he is a lonely old man.
(c) She thinks he is asking her to marry him.
(d) She thinks he is asking to sleep with him.

4. What has Linnaeus taught his students?
(a) That classifications have to be clear and expressive.
(b) That he will meet them again on the other side.
(c) That they are responsible for his success.
(d) How to carry on when he predeceases them.

5. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?
(a) Their families' happiness and ignorance.
(b) Explaining their exhaustion.
(c) Confessing their affair.
(d) Being exposed by the icthyologist.

6. Who builds Hammarby?
(a) Sara Lisa's family.
(b) Linnaeus' family.
(c) Linnaeus.
(d) Rotheram.

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

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

9. Where does Mendel teach?
(a) At a high school.
(b) At the Sorbonne.
(c) At a monastery.
(d) At the University of Berlin.

10. What radical text does Richard give his classes?
(a) Copies of a paper on the eugenics.
(b) Copies of a paper on human sexuality.
(c) Copies of a paper on hybridization of peas.
(d) Copies of a paper on training dogs.

11. Who is Richard's wife in "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds?"
(a) Sophie.
(b) Anna.
(c) Leni.
(d) Antonia.

12. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?
(a) He describes the author's marriage.
(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 rivalry with another scientist.

13. What does Otto Leiniger ask Antonia to do when he finds her alone in the greenhouse?
(a) He asks her to lean over and water some plants.
(b) He asks her to tell him about her father.
(c) He asks her to show him the garden.
(d) He asks her to make love with him.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sophia tell Linnaeus they will go next?

2. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?

3. Ruby, Jonathan, and the children talk about what when the children visit?

4. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?

5. Which answer describes Sophia's appearance?

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