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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Wallace respond when Alec writes to him?
(a) He gives Alec suggestions for collecting valuable specimens.
(b) He sympathizes with Alec's loss.
(c) He invites Alec to the Malay Archipelago.
(d) He gives Alec tips for raising funds for a trip.

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

3. How does Rose's and Bianca's mother tell them to find what they need?
(a) Look into water and spin the surface with their hands.
(b) Walk around a fire, repeating your question.
(c) Walk to the top of the tallest mountain around.
(d) Sit by the sea and watch the waves.

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

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

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

7. What is the Marburg sisters' mother's name?
(a) Rose.
(b) Stella.
(c) Suky.
(d) Adele.

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

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

10. What does Rose cook for Bianca?
(a) Squash.
(b) Beans.
(c) Chicken.
(d) Mushrooms.

11. Rose and Bianca help with what family business?
(a) Their father's chemistry lab.
(b) Their grandfather's printmaking shop.
(c) Their father's apothecary shop.
(d) Their father's winery.

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

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

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) Writing about the origin of species.
(c) Sending his samples ahead of Alec's.
(d) Locating archaeological specimens that illustrate the evolution of species.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why has Zaga agreed to raise Joel's children?

2. How do Rose and Bianca keep in touch with each other after they visit at Rose's lab?

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

4. What has Alec been collecting in Sarawak?

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

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