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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Barton give Alec?
(a) Letters of introduction.
(b) Passage to the Amazon.
(c) Specimens.
(d) Money.

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

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

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

8. What are Rose and Bianca like in their youth?
(a) Independent.
(b) Inseparable.
(c) Always at war with each other.
(d) Irreverent.

9. Who is Dr. Sepulveda?
(a) Joel's step father.
(b) A widower Zaga meets in Chile.
(c) A curator at the art museum.
(d) The tour guide who takes Joel and Zaga through Chile.

10. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.
(b) They are testing their hypothesis 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.

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

12. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?
(a) None.
(b) An offer of a reward for evidence of hibernating swallows.
(c) An offer of a reward for evidence that swallows migrate.
(d) A friendly and encouraging response.

13. Where is Alec Carriere when "Birds with No Feet" opens?
(a) In his office.
(b) In prison.
(c) In a hammock.
(d) In a museum.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rose and Bianca share in addition to their text books?

2. How does Wallace respond when Alec writes to him?

3. What is Christopher Billopp's relationship with Miss Juliet Colden?

4. At whose house is Wallace staying when Alec finds him next in 1855?

5. How does Rose's and Bianca's mother tell them to find what they need?

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