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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What prevents Alec from giving up his taxidermy hobby?
(a) An exhibition of Wallace's specimens.
(b) Edwards' book "A Voyage Up the River Amazon."
(c) A Bird of Paradise specimen.
(d) A display at the Academy of Natural Sciences.

2. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?
(a) At a typewriter repair shop.
(b) At a midwife's office.
(c) At an art gallery.
(d) At a pediatric dental practice.

3. What do Rose and Bianca talk about with their mother when they contact her?
(a) Their father's shop.
(b) Their father's death.
(c) Their grandmother's dowry.
(d) Their grandfather's dogs.

4. What does Rose convince Bianca to do with her?
(a) Move back home to live with their father.
(b) Move to New York.
(c) Camp out at the lab.
(d) Travel.

5. To whom does Sarah Anne write a letter when she is alone?
(a) Darwin.
(b) Mendel.
(c) Lamarck.
(d) Linnaeus.

6. 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) The person has accused her of being unethical.
(d) Her theories have been adopted as the person's new position.

7. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?
(a) An offer of a reward for evidence of hibernating swallows.
(b) An offer of a reward for evidence that swallows migrate.
(c) None.
(d) A friendly and encouraging response.

8. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.
(b) They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(c) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(d) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.

9. What is the scientific atmosphere like in America when Alec returns with his samples?
(a) The Civil War has distracted all attention from science.
(b) The controversies over Darwin's Origin of Species has just broken out.
(c) The west is being settled and new species and fossils are creating a new enthusiasm for science.
(d) The Scopes Trial has just renewed the controversies around the question of evolution.

10. Who dies of the ague?
(a) Mr. Barton.
(b) Lamarck.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Ali, the orangutan.

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

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

13. What do Rose and Bianca do at midnight?
(a) Go to the cliffs.
(b) Go to the ocean.
(c) Go to a bar.
(d) Go to the creek.

14. What is soroche?
(a) Dizziness.
(b) Morning sickness.
(c) Altitude sickness.
(d) Anemia.

15. At whose house is Wallace staying when Alec finds him next in 1855?
(a) Sir John Brooke.
(b) Mr. Barton.
(c) Mr. Adam Rowley.
(d) Dr. Lauchlin Grant.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Rose and Bianca hear while they are eating together?

3. How old are Rose and Bianca when their mother is killed?

4. What do Rose and Bianca study in college?

5. How does Sarah propose to test the theory of what happens to swallows in winter?

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