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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. Under what circumstances has Wallace lost his own specimens?
(a) Customs agents do not let the collection through.
(b) There is a fire on his ship.
(c) Pirates steal his collection.
(d) Bailiffs impound the collection for back taxes.

2. 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 revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(c) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.
(d) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.

3. Who dies of the ague?
(a) Mr. Barton.
(b) Lamarck.
(c) Darwin.
(d) Ali, the orangutan.

4. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?
(a) Marketing artwork.
(b) Selling rights to artwork.
(c) Selling rights to a new drug.
(d) Developing new medicinal oils.

5. In what scientific principle does Wallace profess his faith when he is talking with Alec in Borneo?
(a) The permanence of species.
(b) Evolution as a punctuated equilibrium.
(c) Adaptation through divine intent.
(d) The emergence of new varieties of species.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Rose and Bianca talk about with their mother when they contact her?

2. How do Rose and Bianca keep in touch with each other after they visit at Rose's lab?

3. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?

4. Where does Alec work before he goes to the Amazon?

5. Where do Rose and Bianca get together again?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What happens on the night when Rose convinces Bianca to camp out at the lab with her?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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