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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The English Pupil.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mendel do when Tati jumps over the wall at the monastery?
(a) He runs and hides.
(b) He attacks him.
(c) He brings him back to his house and interrogates him about what he has seen.
(d) He shows him a tame fox and other animals.

2. Why does Linnaeus ask his coachman to keep driving at the beginning of the story?
(a) He is resigned to living without his family.
(b) He is anxious to get to the laboratory.
(c) He is uncertain about where he is going.
(d) He is dying and likes the long drives.

3. Which of Linnaeus' students has been most faithful about writing?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Hasselquist.
(c) Falck.
(d) Thunberg.

4. How old is Linnaeus' son when his son dies?
(a) Thirty seven years old.
(b) Twenty seven years old.
(c) Five years old.
(d) Two years old.

5. When does "The English Pupil" take place?
(a) April, 1836.
(b) October, 1829.
(c) July, 1859.
(d) December, 1777.

Short Answer Questions

1. What have Linnaeus' students done for him?

2. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?

3. What does Richard say about Mendel when he (Richard) is courting his wife?

4. Who is Richard's wife in "The Behavior of the Hawkweeds?"

5. What has Linnaeus taught his students?

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