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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ruby, Jonathan, and the children talk about what when the children visit?
(a) The past.
(b) Which children need to be picked up or dropped off, and where.
(c) Their plans for the future.
(d) Life before Ruby and Jonathan get together.

2. Which of Linnaeus' students dies first?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Falck.
(c) Forskal.
(d) Rotheram.

3. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?
(a) Sara Lisa.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Linnaeus himself.
(d) Hasselquist.

4. How long after they leave the marine biology station does Ruby call Jonathan?
(a) Twelve days.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) A week.
(d) Two days.

5. What do Ruby and Jonathan see when they sit on the patio now that the children are grown?
(a) The children playing.
(b) The garden.
(c) The children watching them.
(d) The ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Richard's wife in "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds?"

2. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?

3. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

4. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?

5. Where does Linnaeus' coachman take him when they arrive at Hammarby?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Tati, also known as Anton Vaculik, Antonia's grandfather.

2. What happens when Tati sees Antonia and Leiniger together in the greenhouse?

3. What do Jonathan and Ruby do when the tension builds between them?

4. Describe the late years in Mendel's career.

5. What does Linnaeus remember about Rotheram?

6. Richard is sensitive about what condition?

7. When a man and a woman arrive, who does Linnaeus think they are?

8. What does Linnaeus think as he is leaving Hammarby?

9. How does Linnaeus view what his pupils have done for him?

10. What does Antonia tell Richard when they are dating?

(see the answer keys)

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