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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 type of business does the Marburg family run?
(a) A bakery.
(b) A winery.
(c) A psychic hotline.
(d) A science lab.
2. What illness does Alec Carrière come down with while in the Malay Archipelago?
(a) Typhoid Fever.
(b) Malaria.
(c) Chicken Pox.
(d) Scarlet Fever.
3. How does Annie Taggert feel about Dr. Grant?
(a) She finds him annoying.
(b) She is terrified of his temper.
(c) She finds him hilarious.
(d) She is deeply in love with him.
4. What U.S. state do the Marburg sisters grow up in?
(a) Georgia.
(b) New York.
(c) Illinois.
(d) California.
5. What type of animal is the Paradisaea apoda?
(a) A bird.
(b) A reptile.
(c) A mammal.
(d) A fish.
Short Answer Questions
1. Which of Zaga's relatives was acquatinted with Charles Darwin?
2. What type of hospital is set up at Grosse Isle?
3. How old are the Marburg sisters when their mother dies?
4. Which of the following, terrible events occurs to Zaga on her honeymoon?
5. Where had Alfred Wallace, Alec Carrière's mentor, spent his years collecting specimens?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the opening pages of "Soroche" what does the reader learn about Zaga's character?
2. How do Bianca and Rose spend their evening in August, 1980 when Bianca visits Rose's laboratory?
3. What school subject do the Marburg sisters excel in, and how does this shape their adulthood?
4. What unexpected request does Dr. George Douglas make of Laughlin?
5. How did Wallace and Carrière meet?
6. Who started the winery in "The Marburg Sisters" and who runs it at the time of the story's setting?
7. What is the state of the passengers aboard the ships at Grosse Isle?
8. How do the Marburg sisters cope with their father's death?
9. What notes does Laughlin make about disease and quarantine while he is working at Grosse Isle?
10. Where did Alec Carrière grow up, and what was his ambition in life?
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