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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 role does Sarah Anne play when the guests are talking?
(a) Mother.
(b) Princess.
(c) Hostess.
(d) Guest.

2. What is Bianca doing now?
(a) Writing about genetic transmission.
(b) Studying enzyme structures.
(c) Working for her father.
(d) Traveling.

3. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.
(b) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(c) They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(d) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.

4. What do Rose and Bianca hear while they are eating together?
(a) Their father's coughing.
(b) Coyotes.
(c) Their mother's voice.
(d) Owls.

5. Rose and Bianca help with what family business?
(a) Their father's chemistry lab.
(b) Their father's apothecary shop.
(c) Their father's winery.
(d) Their grandfather's printmaking shop.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Alec Carriere when "Birds with No Feet" opens?

2. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?

3. Who does Rob want Zaga to meet when he calls her?

4. Under what circumstances has Wallace lost his own specimens?

5. How does Zaga spend her days after she moves downtown?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Wallace like when Alec first meets him?

2. What happens when Mrs. Pearce asks Sarah Anne what she is looking at when they meet at the bridge?

3. What does Zaga find in Joel's closet?

4. What experiment do Sarah Anne and Catherine perform?

5. What happeneds when Rose and Bianca rush to Hammondsport to see their father before he dies?

6. Describe Rose's and Bianca's youth.

7. What happens when Alec returns to America with his Birds of Paradise?

8. How do Rose and Bianca communicate with their mother?

9. What does Dr. Sepulveda do for Zaga when she is sick?

10. Why can Alec not believe that there is a fire on the ship?

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