Ship Fever and Other Stories Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What are Sarah Anne Billopp and Mrs. Pearce doing when the story resumes two years later? (from Rare Bird)

They are writing to a prominent scientist about his theory about swallows in winter.

Mrs. Pearce is introducing Sarah Anne to a friend of hers, a young scientist.

They are testing their hypothesis about swallows in winter.

They are revising a paper about their hypothesis about swallows in winter.

2.

Why do Ruby and Jonathan avoid talking about the evening that changes their lives? (from The Littoral Zone)

They do not want to think about how much they have lost.

They are ashamed of themselves.

They remember the evening too differently, and cannot agree about what had happened.

They are not sure what had happened.

3.

Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment? (from Rare Bird)

Selling rights to artwork.

Marketing artwork.

Developing new medicinal oils.

Selling rights to a new drug.

4.

To whom does Zaga rent her condominium? (from Rare Bird)

A pair of brokers.

An evolutionary biologist.

A lepidopterist.

An actuary and his wife.

5.

Who dies of the ague? (from Birds with No Feet)

Lamarck.

Ali, the orangutan.

Darwin.

Mr. Barton.

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