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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why has Zaga agreed to raise Joel's children?
(a) Because she cannot get pregnant.
(b) Because she is too old to have children.
(c) Because she loves Joel.
(d) Because she has lost her own baby.

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

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

8. How does Sarah propose to test the theory of what happens to swallows in winter?
(a) She proposes they catch swallows and confine them under water.
(b) She proposes they dissect a swallow to see if it can breathe under water.
(c) She proposes to correspond with people in South America.
(d) She proposes they follow the swallows in the evenings.

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

10. What do Rose and Bianca do at midnight?
(a) Go to the cliffs.
(b) Go to a bar.
(c) Go to the creek.
(d) Go to the ocean.

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

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

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

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

15. Where does Alec work before he goes to the Amazon?
(a) In a taxidermist's shop.
(b) In a typewriter repair shop.
(c) In a museum.
(d) In a shop that makes leather valises.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the scientific atmosphere like in America when Alec returns with his samples?

2. What does Barton give Alec?

3. What rule of Rose's separates Rose from Bianca?

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

5. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?

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