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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 is Wallace doing while Alec is sweating through the ague and sending samples to Philadelphia?
(a) Locating archaeological specimens that illustrate the evolution of species.
(b) Stealing from Alec's collection of samples.
(c) Sending his samples ahead of Alec's.
(d) Writing about the origin of species.

2. What does Alec bring back from the Aru Islands?
(a) Four crates of skins and three living specimens.
(b) One living specimen.
(c) Crates filled with specimens.
(d) Two skins.

3. What does Barton give Alec?
(a) Passage to the Amazon.
(b) Money.
(c) Letters of introduction.
(d) Specimens.

4. Which sister drops out of school, and when?
(a) Bianca as an undergrad.
(b) Rose as an undergrad.
(c) Rose in graduate school.
(d) Bianca in graduate school.

5. What is soroche?
(a) Dizziness.
(b) Anemia.
(c) Altitude sickness.
(d) Morning sickness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has Mr. Barton just done for Alec?

2. Whose theories are Christopher Billopp, his sister Sarah Anne, and their guests discussing?

3. What do Rose and Bianca do at midnight?

4. To whom does Zaga rent her condominium?

5. What do Rose and Bianca study in college?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bianca do now?

2. What happens to Zaga after the investment she makes in Nicholas Bennett's scheme fails?

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

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

5. Why do Wallace and Alec not travel together in the Malay Archipelago?

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

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

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

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

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

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