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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Christopher Billopp's relationship with Miss Juliet Colden?
(a) They are cousins.
(b) He is courting her.
(c) He is her student.
(d) He is teaching her.

2. What theory in particular are they discussing at the beginning of "Rare Bird?"
(a) The theory that swallows die off each winter and are born anew in spring.
(b) The theory that swallows hibernate in chimneys.
(c) The theory that swallows hibernate under water.
(d) The theory that swallows migrate to South America.

3. What does Antonia think about what Otto Leiniger has asked of her in the greenhouse?
(a) She thinks he is asking to sleep with him.
(b) She thinks he is asking her to leave.
(c) She thinks he is a lonely old man.
(d) She thinks he is asking her to marry him.

4. What do Ruby and Jonathan tell the children when they ask about what had happened on the island?
(a) They do not give details.
(b) They say that they cannot remember.
(c) They say that they had known what they were doing was wrong.
(d) They describe sitting together and falling in love.

5. Jonathan and Ruby laugh at what together at the marine biology station?
(a) The impossibility of a future together.
(b) Their spouses' ignorance.
(c) The others' presentations.
(d) Their children's cute moments.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Alec meet Wallace?

2. How far into their course are Jonathan and Ruby before they have their first real conversation?

3. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

4. What has Alec been collecting in Sarawak?

5. How do Rose and Bianca spend the rest of the night?

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