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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where does Sophia tell Linnaeus they will go next?
(a) Hammarby.
(b) Lappland.
(c) Uppsala.
(d) Home.
2. What is in Linnaeus' museum?
(a) An exhibition of zoological specimens.
(b) Fossils and stones.
(c) Pieces of early human skeletons.
(d) An herbarium and insect collection.
3. Who is Carl Nageli?
(a) A policeman in Brno.
(b) Mendel's lover's husband.
(c) A botanist in Munich.
(d) Mendel's father-in-law.
4. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?
(a) Ingrid.
(b) Sigrid.
(c) Sara Ann.
(d) Anna Lisa.
5. Ruby, Jonathan, and the children talk about what when the children visit?
(a) Their plans for the future.
(b) Life before Ruby and Jonathan get together.
(c) The past.
(d) Which children need to be picked up or dropped off, and where.
6. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?
(a) He wants her to know that he still loves her more than science.
(b) She knows the secret of how Mendel had been led astray by another scientist.
(c) He likes to think about how their children have her eyes.
(d) She makes subtle jokes about how he delivers the material.
7. 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.
8. What do Ruby and Jonathan see when they sit on the patio now that the children are grown?
(a) The garden.
(b) The children playing.
(c) The children watching them.
(d) The ocean.
9. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?
(a) Adjacent to his study.
(b) Up on the hill.
(c) Near town.
(d) Next to the kitchen.
10. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?
(a) Pea plants.
(b) Lapland.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His wife.
11. Jonathan asks Ruby about what when she calls?
(a) Her tenure review.
(b) Her work.
(c) His letter.
(d) Her divorce.
12. Who arrives with Sophia right after Pehr tells Linnaeus that they should return?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Lofling.
(c) Sara Lisa.
(d) Rotheram.
13. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?
(a) Prague.
(b) America.
(c) Berlin.
(d) Paris.
14. What radical text does Richard give his classes?
(a) Copies of a paper on hybridization of peas.
(b) Copies of a paper on training dogs.
(c) Copies of a paper on human sexuality.
(d) Copies of a paper on the eugenics.
15. How far into their course are Jonathan and Ruby before they have their first real conversation?
(a) Three days.
(b) Half an hour.
(c) One week.
(d) Twelve days.
Short Answer Questions
1. What has Linnaeus taught his students?
2. What does Sophia do while Pehr and the other man push the sleigh outside?
3. What are the conditions like when Ruby and Jonathan get together?
4. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?
5. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
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