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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Behavior of the Hawkweeds.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Where does Mendel teach?
(a) At a monastery.
(b) At a high school.
(c) At the Sorbonne.
(d) At the University of Berlin.

4. When does Antonia meet Richard?
(a) She is reading in a cafe where he is having lunch with a friend.
(b) She is living with a boyfriend and he is working as a gardener.
(c) She is writing her thesis and he is one of her students.
(d) She is working at the GE plant and he is finishing his thesis.

5. Who is Anton Vaculik?
(a) Richard's maternal grandfather.
(b) Richard's maternal uncle.
(c) Richard's wife's grandfather.
(d) Richard's wife's father.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

2. Richard is sensitive about what?

3. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

4. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?

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

(see the answer key)

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