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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the second scene of "Rare Bird" open?
(a) In the laboratory.
(b) On London Bridge.
(c) In the garden.
(d) In the church.

2. What is the scientific atmosphere like in America when Alec returns with his samples?
(a) The Scopes Trial has just renewed the controversies around the question of evolution.
(b) The Civil War has distracted all attention from science.
(c) The west is being settled and new species and fossils are creating a new enthusiasm for science.
(d) The controversies over Darwin's Origin of Species has just broken out.

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

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

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

6. What response does Zaga get from Dr. Sepulveda when she writes to him after returning home from Chile?
(a) She hears that Dr. Sepulveda has moved.
(b) She hears that Dr. Sepulveda has died.
(c) She never hears back.
(d) He writes her with long stories about his life.

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

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

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

10. 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) Scientific theories should be based on evidence.
(d) Scientists should be morally upstanding people.

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

12. What is soroche?
(a) Dizziness.
(b) Altitude sickness.
(c) Morning sickness.
(d) Anemia.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Marburg sisters' mother's name?

2. Where do Rose and Bianca get together again?

3. What has Mr. Barton just done for Alec?

4. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?

5. What has Alec been collecting in Sarawak?

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