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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. Who arrives with Sophia right after Pehr tells Linnaeus that they should return?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Rotheram.
(c) Lofling.
(d) Sara Lisa.

2. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?
(a) Mendel attacking a man.
(b) Mendel's wife with another man.
(c) Mendel's garden.
(d) Mendel and his mistress.

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

4. Why do Ruby and Jonathan avoid talking about the evening that changes their lives?
(a) They remember the evening too differently, and cannot agree about what had happened.
(b) They are not sure what had happened.
(c) They do not want to think about how much they have lost.
(d) They are ashamed of themselves.

5. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
(a) The flaws in her husband's experimental techniques.
(b) Where she has kept Tati's papers.
(c) Where she has learned about Mendel.
(d) Mendel's horticultural secrets.

Short Answer Questions

1. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?

2. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?

3. What does Ruby tell her daughter when she asks who started the relationship between Ruby and Jonathan?

4. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?

5. What happens after Antonia's daughters grow up and move away?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Carl Nageli influenced Mendel's work?

2. The children talk about what when they visit Ruby and Jonathan?

3. What do Linnaeus and his coachman do when they reach Hammarby?

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

5. Why does Richard smile and look at his wife when he tells the story of Mendel's life?

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

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

8. What does Richard tell his students about Mendel's life?

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

10. What happens on the night about which Jonathan and Ruby will not speak?

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