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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Bianca when Rose wakes up the next morning?
(a) On the way home.
(b) Out getting food.
(c) Out with the lab director.
(d) Gone.

2. Which sister drops out of school, and when?
(a) Bianca as an undergrad.
(b) Rose as an undergrad.
(c) Bianca in graduate school.
(d) Rose in graduate school.

3. When does Alec meet Wallace?
(a) Wallace has just arrived at the Amazon.
(b) Alec has just returned to the station at the bottom of the river after a collecting trip.
(c) Alec is just about to return home from the Amazon.
(d) Wallace is just about to return home from the Amazon.

4. Where does Alec work before he goes to the Amazon?
(a) In a taxidermist's shop.
(b) In a museum.
(c) In a typewriter repair shop.
(d) In a shop that makes leather valises.

5. What makes Alec's decision to collect specimens from South America seem promising?
(a) No one is collecting Amazonian specimens.
(b) Specimens are being sold for good prices.
(c) Political turmoil in the Amazon basin has just ended.
(d) Hardly any Amazonian species have been catalogued.

6. When is "Birds with No Feet" set?
(a) 1872.
(b) 1825.
(c) 1827.
(d) 1852.

7. What answer did Sarah Anne finally get from the person to whom she had written during the dinner party?
(a) The person has chastised her for her presumptuousness.
(b) The person has dismissed her theories.
(c) Her theories have been adopted as the person's new position.
(d) The person has accused her of being unethical.

8. What does Sarah Anne think her brother thinks of her when she proposes to test the theory about swallows?
(a) She thinks that he is judging her harshly.
(b) She thinks that he is embarrassed by her.
(c) She thinks that he resents her for being smart.
(d) She thinks that he is envious of her intelligence.

9. Where does the second scene of "Rare Bird" open?
(a) In the garden.
(b) On London Bridge.
(c) In the church.
(d) In the laboratory.

10. What does Zaga find in Joel's closet?
(a) Pictures from Chile.
(b) Artwork.
(c) Bills and letters.
(d) Baby clothes.

11. In what scientific principle does Wallace profess his faith when he is talking with Alec in Borneo?
(a) The emergence of new varieties of species.
(b) Adaptation through divine intent.
(c) Evolution as a punctuated equilibrium.
(d) The permanence of species.

12. How is Wallace doing when Alec finds him in Borneo?
(a) He is nearly starved.
(b) He is depressed about losing specimens to flooding.
(c) He has the ague.
(d) He is fit and working hard.

13. What theory in particular are they discussing at the beginning of "Rare Bird?"
(a) The theory that swallows hibernate under water.
(b) The theory that swallows hibernate in chimneys.
(c) The theory that swallows die off each winter and are born anew in spring.
(d) The theory that swallows migrate to South America.

14. What is Wallace doing while Alec is sweating through the ague and sending samples to Philadelphia?
(a) Stealing from Alec's collection of samples.
(b) Sending his samples ahead of Alec's.
(c) Locating archaeological specimens that illustrate the evolution of species.
(d) Writing about the origin of species.

15. What does Alec take from his cabin when the cabin boy tells him about the fire?
(a) His journal.
(b) A bird of paradise.
(c) A box of insect specimens.
(d) A sloth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Mr. Barton just done for Alec?

2. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?

3. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?

4. What rule of Rose's separates Rose from Bianca?

5. Where do Rose and Bianca get together again?

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