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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. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?
(a) Explaining their exhaustion.
(b) Confessing their affair.
(c) Their families' happiness and ignorance.
(d) Being exposed by the icthyologist.

2. What do Ruby and Jonathan tell the children when they ask about what had happened on the island?
(a) They do not give details.
(b) They say that they had known what they were doing was wrong.
(c) They say that they cannot remember.
(d) They describe sitting together and falling in love.

3. Jonathan and Ruby are looking at what when they have their first real conversation?
(a) Linnaeus' books.
(b) Tide pools.
(c) Hawkweed samples.
(d) Fish specimens.

4. What does Otto Leiniger ask Antonia to do when he finds her alone in the greenhouse?
(a) He asks her to tell him about her father.
(b) He asks her to show him the garden.
(c) He asks her to make love with him.
(d) He asks her to lean over and water some plants.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which answer describes Sophia's appearance?

3. What is the house like before the children are grown?

4. What has Linnaeus taught his students?

5. What do Jonathan and Ruby find to be difficult when returning after their time at the marine biology station?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Richard is sensitive about what condition?

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

5. What is remarkable about Thunberg?

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

7. Where are Jonathan and Ruby working when they meet?

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

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

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

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