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

2. How old is Linnaeus' son when his son dies?
(a) Twenty seven years old.
(b) Thirty seven years old.
(c) Two years old.
(d) Five years old.

3. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?
(a) He refines his experimental techniques and shows how hawkweeds can be fertilized in the garden.
(b) He shows the mechanisms that prevent traits from being passed from one generation to another.
(c) He shows how traits can be passed from one generation to another.
(d) He performs technical sound experiments, but does not get results.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

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

3. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?

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

5. What do Ruby and Jonathan tell the children when they ask about what had happened on the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what situation is the coachman at the beginning of "The English Pupil?"

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Richard is sensitive about what condition?

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

10. How do Jonathan and Ruby act when they are together after their first real conversation?

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