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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who climbs into Linnaeus' sleigh at the end of the story?
(a) Sophia.
(b) Pehr.
(c) Rotheram.
(d) Sara Lisa.

2. What does Otto Leiniger do in 1931?
(a) He emigrates to Paris.
(b) He gives his daughter away in marriage.
(c) He takes over the nursery where Tati works.
(d) He publishes his response to Mendel's paper.

3. What is in Linnaeus' museum?
(a) An herbarium and insect collection.
(b) Pieces of early human skeletons.
(c) An exhibition of zoological specimens.
(d) Fossils and stones.

4. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?
(a) His wife.
(b) Pea plants.
(c) Lapland.
(d) His daughter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Mendel teach?

2. When does Mendel begin his experiments?

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

4. Which answer describes Sophia's appearance?

5. Which of Linnaeus' students dies first?

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