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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 does Tati tell Antonia ruined Gregor Mendel's life?

2. Who is Carl Nageli?

3. Where does Sophia tell Linnaeus they will go next?

4. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?

5. Where does Linnaeus' coachman take him when they arrive at Hammarby?

Short Essay Questions

1. The children talk about what when they visit Ruby and Jonathan?

2. What is remarkable about Thunberg?

3. What does Richard tell his students about Mendel's life?

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

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

6. When a man and a woman arrive, who does Linnaeus think they are?

7. Describe the late years in Mendel's career.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Speculation into scientific laws plays an important part in many stories, but so does memory. What part does memory play in three stories? Cite specific examples from the text. What is recalled, and how do the things characters remember affect the stories?

Essay Topic 2

Do men and women in Barrett's story approach science differently? Are there masculine and a feminine ways of knowing? Are those categories fixed or flexible? Use specific examples from three stories in your answer.

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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