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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. Mrs. Pearce and Sarah Anne Billopp agree on what during their conversation?
(a) Scientific theories should be based on evidence.
(b) Scientists should be morally upstanding people.
(c) Scientific theories should give evidence of divine laws.
(d) Lay people should have faith in scientists and God.

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

3. What is the Marburg sisters' mother's name?
(a) Rose.
(b) Stella.
(c) Suky.
(d) Adele.

4. How does Rose's and Bianca's mother tell them to find what they need?
(a) Look into water and spin the surface with their hands.
(b) Walk around a fire, repeating your question.
(c) Walk to the top of the tallest mountain around.
(d) Sit by the sea and watch the waves.

5. What do Rose and Bianca study in college?
(a) Romance languages.
(b) Zoology.
(c) Biochemistry.
(d) Literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?

2. What does Alec bring back from the Aru Islands?

3. How old are Rose and Bianca when their mother is killed?

4. What does Alec take from his cabin when the cabin boy tells him about the fire?

5. Who hires the nurse who takes care of Rose's and Bianca's father when he is dying?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Sarah Anne and Catherine after they perform their experiment?

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

3. What experiment do Sarah Anne and Catherine perform?

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

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

6. What does Rose do now?

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

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

9. What does Bianca do now?

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

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