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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?

2. What does Tati see when he climbs the wall at the Augustinian monastery in Brno?

3. What are the conditions like when Ruby and Jonathan get together?

4. How does Ruby get away from her house to call Jonathan?

5. What have Linnaeus' students done for him?

Short Essay Questions

1. Richard is sensitive about what condition?

2. What happens when Ruby gets away from her family to call Jonathan?

3. What happens on the night about which Jonathan and Ruby will not speak?

4. In what state is Carl Linnaeus at the beginning of the story?

5. In what situation is the coachman at the beginning of "The English Pupil?"

6. What has Linnaeus built at Hammarby?

7. When do Jonathan and Ruby really notice each other for the first time?

8. What do Linnaeus and his coachman do when they reach Hammarby?

9. How do Jonathan and Ruby act when they are together after their first real conversation?

10. What happens when Tati sees Antonia and Leiniger together in the greenhouse?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Alec and Wallace are alter egos in "Birds with No Feet," but do other characters seem like opposite sides of the same personality? With characters within one story, or characters from different stories, discuss the double, or alter, ego in Andrea Barrett's stories. Cite specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Many of Barrett's stories center around relationships between men and women. How does science figure in the relationships? Is science secondary to the romantic relationship?

Essay Topic 3

Barrett invokes Mendel's theories about hybridization in peas, Linnaeus' career developing a classification scheme for plants and animals, and Darwin's theories about the descent of species. Are these theories manifested in the development of the stories? That is, do the characters themselves, rather than working with these theories, provide evidence of them? Discuss three stories as evidence of scientific laws.

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