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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What response does Zaga get from Dr. Sepulveda when she writes to him after returning home from Chile?
(a) She never hears back.
(b) She hears that Dr. Sepulveda has died.
(c) He writes her with long stories about his life.
(d) She hears that Dr. Sepulveda has moved.

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

4. What do Rose and Bianca study in college?
(a) Biochemistry.
(b) Romance languages.
(c) Zoology.
(d) Literature.

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

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

7. How old are Rose and Bianca when their mother is killed?
(a) Nine and ten.
(b) Eight and nine.
(c) Three and four.
(d) Thirteen and fourteen.

8. How have Wallace's fortunes changed since he meets Alec in the Amazon?
(a) He has been ill and has not been collecting.
(b) He publishes two books and now has an assistant.
(c) He loses his collection in a fire on his ship.
(d) He cannot raise money for further collecting trips.

9. Who hires the nurse who takes care of Rose's and Bianca's father when he is dying?
(a) A group of his friends.
(b) His lawyer.
(c) His wife.
(d) Rose and Bianca.

10. Where do Rose and Bianca get together again?
(a) Kennebunk.
(b) Hammondsport.
(c) Topsail Island.
(d) Turtle Beach.

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

12. What has Alec been collecting in Sarawak?
(a) Apes.
(b) Beetles.
(c) Birds.
(d) Butterflies.

13. What do Rose and Bianca share in addition to their text books?
(a) Friends.
(b) Food.
(c) Rides to school.
(d) Lovers.

14. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?
(a) Marketing artwork.
(b) Developing new medicinal oils.
(c) Selling rights to artwork.
(d) Selling rights to a new drug.

15. What is Bianca doing now?
(a) Studying enzyme structures.
(b) Traveling.
(c) Working for her father.
(d) Writing about genetic transmission.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rose's and Bianca's father's wife refuse to let them take?

2. In what case does Alec precede Wallace?

3. How does Zaga spend her days after she moves downtown?

4. What do Rose and Bianca talk about with their mother when they contact her?

5. Where does the second scene of "Rare Bird" open?

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