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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. What has Linnaeus taught his students?

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

3. What are Linnaeus' students holding when he sees them as he is leaving?

4. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?

5. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Linnaeus think as he is leaving Hammarby?

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

3. How does Linnaeus view what his pupils have done for him?

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

5. Describe the scene when Jonathan, Ruby, and the other researchers return to their families.

6. What does Antonia tell Richard when they are dating?

7. What do Jonathan and Ruby do when the tension builds between them?

8. What is remarkable about Thunberg?

9. What has Linnaeus built at Hammarby?

10. What scene does Tati see between Antonia and Otto Leiniger?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In several of the stories, characters withhold their feelings or avoid certain conversations. What effect does their withholding of information have on three of the stories? Cite specific examples from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Many of Barrett's stories contain parents and children. How does the parent-child relationship function in three of the stories? Alternatively, how does the sibling-sibling relationship function in three of the stories?

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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