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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What has Mr. Barton just done for Alec?
(a) Barton has just arranged for Alec to marry.
(b) Barton has just sold his collection of specimens.
(c) Barton has just put Alec in touch with Wallace.
(d) Barton has just contracted with Alec for more specimens.

3. What does Rose's and Bianca's father's wife refuse to let them take?
(a) Their father's books.
(b) Their father's picture albums.
(c) Their father's tools.
(d) Their father's dogs.

4. To whom does Zaga rent her condominium?
(a) A pair of brokers.
(b) A lepidopterist.
(c) An evolutionary biologist.
(d) An actuary and his wife.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?
(a) While Joel is in Chile.
(b) A few months after Joel's funeral.
(c) Before her departure for Chile.
(d) After her pregnancy.

12. Bianca is thinking about what when she drives to see Rose in 1980?
(a) The undead.
(b) Eternity.
(c) Evolution.
(d) The dead.

13. What is Christopher Billopp's relationship with Miss Juliet Colden?
(a) He is teaching her.
(b) He is courting her.
(c) He is her student.
(d) They are cousins.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Under what circumstances has Wallace lost his own specimens?

2. What is soroche?

3. How do Rose and Bianca spend the rest of the night?

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

5. Who does Rob want Zaga to meet when he calls her?

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