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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Marburg Sisters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where do Rose and Bianca get together again?
(a) Kennebunk.
(b) Hammondsport.
(c) Topsail Island.
(d) Turtle Beach.

2. Where are Wallace's specimens placed when Wallace arrives in England?
(a) The Washington Zoo.
(b) The Institute of Natural Sciences.
(c) The Queen's Zoo.
(d) The Zoological Gardens.

3. What role does Sarah Anne play when the guests are talking?
(a) Mother.
(b) Hostess.
(c) Guest.
(d) Princess.

4. Where does Alec work before he goes to the Amazon?
(a) In a taxidermist's shop.
(b) In a typewriter repair shop.
(c) In a shop that makes leather valises.
(d) In a museum.

5. What response has Sarah Anne had to the letter she had written during the dinner party?
(a) A friendly and encouraging response.
(b) An offer of a reward for evidence of hibernating swallows.
(c) None.
(d) An offer of a reward for evidence that swallows migrate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Alec tell Wallace when he writes to him at the end of the story?

2. How long after they leave the marine biology station does Ruby call Jonathan?

3. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?

4. How is Wallace doing when Alec finds him in Borneo?

5. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?

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