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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. Where does Alec work before he goes to the Amazon?
(a) In a taxidermist's shop.
(b) In a typewriter repair shop.
(c) In a shop that makes leather valises.
(d) In a museum.

2. To whom does Zaga rent her condominium?
(a) A pair of brokers.
(b) An actuary and his wife.
(c) A lepidopterist.
(d) An evolutionary biologist.

3. Where are Wallace's specimens placed when Wallace arrives in England?
(a) The Queen's Zoo.
(b) The Washington Zoo.
(c) The Zoological Gardens.
(d) The Institute of Natural Sciences.

4. How is Wallace doing when Alec finds him in Borneo?
(a) He has the ague.
(b) He is depressed about losing specimens to flooding.
(c) He is fit and working hard.
(d) He is nearly starved.

5. What do Rose and Bianca do at midnight?
(a) Go to a bar.
(b) Go to the ocean.
(c) Go to the creek.
(d) Go to the cliffs.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what case does Alec precede Wallace?

2. What does Rose's and Bianca's father's wife refuse to let them take?

3. What is soroche?

4. When does Alec meet Wallace?

5. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Rose and Bianca do now at the time of the story?

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

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

4. What does Alec Carriere have in the hold when "Birds with No Feet" begins?

5. What does Bianca do now?

6. What does Alec do before he sails for the Amazon?

7. What experiment do Sarah Anne and Catherine perform?

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

9. What does Rose do now?

10. How is the relationship between Christopher and Sarah Anne Billopp?

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