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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How far into their course are Jonathan and Ruby before they have their first real conversation?
(a) Half an hour.
(b) Three days.
(c) Twelve days.
(d) One week.

2. Who arrives with Sophia right after Pehr tells Linnaeus that they should return?
(a) Sara Lisa.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Ternstrom.
(d) Lofling.

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

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

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

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

7. Jonathan and Ruby are looking at what when they have their first real conversation?
(a) Linnaeus' books.
(b) Tide pools.
(c) Fish specimens.
(d) Hawkweed samples.

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

9. Who is Anton Vaculik?
(a) Richard's maternal grandfather.
(b) Richard's maternal uncle.
(c) Richard's wife's father.
(d) Richard's wife's grandfather.

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

11. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
(a) Where she has learned about Mendel.
(b) Where she has kept Tati's papers.
(c) Mendel's horticultural secrets.
(d) The flaws in her husband's experimental techniques.

12. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.
(b) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(c) His lisp.
(d) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.

13. What does Ruby tell her daughter when she asks who started the relationship between Ruby and Jonathan?
(a) She says that it had happened to both of them.
(b) She says that Jonathan had coerced her.
(c) She says that she had started it.
(d) She says that Jonathan had started it.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Richard say about Mendel when he (Richard) is courting his wife?

2. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

3. When does "The English Pupil" take place?

4. Where does Linnaeus begin to see his students?

5. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?

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