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

2. What news do Rose and Bianca have from their father?
(a) That he is thinking about selling their grandfather's printmaking shop.
(b) That he is thinking about selling the apothecary shop.
(c) That he is thinking about selling the winery.
(d) That he is ill.

3. Who is Dr. Sepulveda?
(a) A curator at the art museum.
(b) A widower Zaga meets in Chile.
(c) The tour guide who takes Joel and Zaga through Chile.
(d) Joel's step father.

4. What is the scientific atmosphere like in America when Alec returns with his samples?
(a) The Scopes Trial has just renewed the controversies around the question of evolution.
(b) The Civil War has distracted all attention from science.
(c) The controversies over Darwin's Origin of Species has just broken out.
(d) The west is being settled and new species and fossils are creating a new enthusiasm for science.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Barton give Alec?

2. Who dies of the ague?

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

4. When does Alec meet Wallace?

5. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the only case where Alec precedes Wallace?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How do Zaga's stepchildren react when Zaga is sick in Chile?

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

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