2. How do Rose and Bianca keep in touch with each other after they visit at Rose's lab?
(a) They exchange impersonal letters.
(b) They see each other a few times a month.
(c) A year passes before they talk again.
(d) They talk on the phone infrequently for a year.

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

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

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

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

7. What do Rose and Bianca hear while they are eating together?
(a) Owls.
(b) Coyotes.
(c) Their father's coughing.
(d) Their mother's voice.

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

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

10. Under what circumstances has Wallace lost his own specimens?
(a) Bailiffs impound the collection for back taxes.
(b) Pirates steal his collection.
(c) Customs agents do not let the collection through.
(d) There is a fire on his ship.

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

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

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

14. Where does Zaga move when the investment scheme falls through?
(a) She lives with her children.
(b) She moves into a row house.
(c) She moves in with Joel's sister.
(d) She lives on the street.

15. Whose theories are Christopher Billopp, his sister Sarah Anne, and their guests discussing?
(a) Linnaeus'.
(b) Mendel's.
(c) Lamarck's.
(d) Darwin's.