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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. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(b) He had classified his students according to eye color once.
(c) He remembers the man's mustache.
(d) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.

2. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?
(a) It is going to revolutionize science.
(b) It is irresponsible and dangerous thinking.
(c) It is a model of good science.
(d) It should have been censored.

3. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?
(a) Berlin.
(b) Prague.
(c) America.
(d) Paris.

4. What does Ruby tell her daughter when she asks who started the relationship between Ruby and Jonathan?
(a) She says that Jonathan had coerced her.
(b) She says that Jonathan had started it.
(c) She says that it had happened to both of them.
(d) She says that she had started it.

5. Which of Linnaeus' students has been most faithful about writing?
(a) Hasselquist.
(b) Ternstrom.
(c) Falck.
(d) Thunberg.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Anton Vaculik?

2. Jonathan and Ruby laugh at what together at the marine biology station?

3. Where does Mendel teach?

4. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?

5. Richard is sensitive about what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What scene does Tati see between Antonia and Otto Leiniger?

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

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

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

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

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

7. What vision does Linnaeus see near the fireplace?

8. What does Linnaeus remember about Rotheram?

9. What has Linnaeus built at Hammarby?

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

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