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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 prevents Alec from giving up his taxidermy hobby?
(a) Edwards' book "A Voyage Up the River Amazon."
(b) A display at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
(c) A Bird of Paradise specimen.
(d) An exhibition of Wallace's specimens.

2. What answer did Sarah Anne finally get from the person to whom she had written during the dinner party?
(a) The person has chastised her for her presumptuousness.
(b) The person has dismissed her theories.
(c) Her theories have been adopted as the person's new position.
(d) The person has accused her of being unethical.

3. In what case does Alec precede Wallace?
(a) Alec brings back a live orangutan.
(b) Alec brings back the first Birds of Paradise.
(c) Alec reaches the Aru Islands before Wallace.
(d) Alec establishes the notion of evolution through selection and descent.

4. Why has Zaga agreed to raise Joel's children?
(a) Because she loves Joel.
(b) Because she has lost her own baby.
(c) Because she cannot get pregnant.
(d) Because she is too old to have children.

5. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?
(a) A friendly and encouraging response.
(b) An offer of a reward for evidence that swallows migrate.
(c) None.
(d) An offer of a reward for evidence of hibernating swallows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is soroche?

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

3. What does Sarah Anne think her brother thinks of her when she proposes to test the theory about swallows?

4. What does Rose cook for Bianca?

5. Where does the second scene of "Rare Bird" open?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What experiment do Sarah Anne and Catherine perform?

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

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

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

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

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