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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes Alec's decision to collect specimens from South America seem promising?
(a) No one is collecting Amazonian specimens.
(b) Hardly any Amazonian species have been catalogued.
(c) Specimens are being sold for good prices.
(d) Political turmoil in the Amazon basin has just ended.

2. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?
(a) He is guilty and it starts to depress him.
(b) He is not guilty because that is his work.
(c) He is glad to kill the specimens and turn them into scientific facts.
(d) He is torn between his work and his emotions.

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

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

5. How does Zaga spend her days after she moves downtown?
(a) She cleans out the closets.
(b) She works at the art museum.
(c) She does not see anyone.
(d) She arranges the distribution of her husband's paintings.

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

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

8. What does Alec bring back from the Aru Islands?
(a) Four crates of skins and three living specimens.
(b) Crates filled with specimens.
(c) Two skins.
(d) One living specimen.

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

10. What news do Rose and Bianca have from their father?
(a) That he is ill.
(b) That he is thinking about selling their grandfather's printmaking shop.
(c) That he is thinking about selling the apothecary shop.
(d) That he is thinking about selling the winery.

11. What does Alec tell Wallace when he writes to him at the end of the story?
(a) He describes his failures.
(b) He describes the next collecting journey he plans to take.
(c) He lists the discoveries he has made.
(d) He laments his father's death.

12. Mrs. Pearce and Sarah Anne Billopp agree on what during their conversation?
(a) Scientific theories should give evidence of divine laws.
(b) Lay people should have faith in scientists and God.
(c) Scientists should be morally upstanding people.
(d) Scientific theories should be based on evidence.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When is "Birds with No Feet" set?

2. What role does Sarah Anne play when the guests are talking?

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

4. To whom does Sarah Anne write a letter when she is alone?

5. Where is Bianca when Rose wakes up the next morning?

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