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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 Rose convince Bianca to do with her?

2. When is "Birds with No Feet" set?

3. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?

4. Where does Zaga move when the investment scheme falls through?

5. Which sister drops out of school, and when?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens when Rose and Bianca return to Hammondsport for the funeral?

3. What does Rose do now?

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

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

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

7. What experiment do Sarah Anne and Catherine perform?

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

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

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

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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