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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Littoral Zone.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which of Linnaeus' students dies first?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Falck.
(c) Rotheram.
(d) Forskal.

3. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?
(a) Linnaeus himself.
(b) Sara Lisa.
(c) Rotheram.
(d) Hasselquist.

4. Richard is sensitive about what?
(a) His right leg, which has withered from polio.
(b) His lisp.
(c) His feet, which had been crushed in an accident.
(d) His left hand, from which an extra finger has been amputated.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the house like now that the children are grown?

2. What does Sophia do while Pehr and the other man push the sleigh outside?

3. Where does Sophia tell Linnaeus they will go next?

4. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?

5. How old is Sophia when her brother, Linnaeus' son, dies?

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