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

2. What does Rose's and Bianca's father's wife refuse to let them take?
(a) Their father's books.
(b) Their father's tools.
(c) Their father's picture albums.
(d) Their father's dogs.

3. What does Rose cook for Bianca?
(a) Squash.
(b) Beans.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) Chicken.

4. How does Zaga spend her days after she moves downtown?
(a) She arranges the distribution of her husband's paintings.
(b) She works at the art museum.
(c) She cleans out the closets.
(d) She does not see anyone.

5. What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later?
(a) Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.
(b) They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(c) They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.
(d) They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How have Wallace's fortunes changed since he meets Alec in the Amazon?

2. Where is Alec Carriere when "Birds with No Feet" opens?

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

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

5. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Rose do now?

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

6. What does Bianca do now?

7. What difficulties does Alec have in bringing the Birds of Paradise back with him?

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

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

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

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