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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Birds with No Feet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?
(a) He is not guilty because that is his work.
(b) He is glad to kill the specimens and turn them into scientific facts.
(c) He is torn between his work and his emotions.
(d) He is guilty and it starts to depress him.

2. When does Zaga sell the house in Soroche?
(a) While Joel is in Chile.
(b) After her pregnancy.
(c) Before her departure for Chile.
(d) A few months after Joel's funeral.

3. Where does Zaga find work after she moves?
(a) At a typewriter repair shop.
(b) At an art gallery.
(c) At a pediatric dental practice.
(d) At a midwife's office.

4. Under what circumstances has Wallace lost his own specimens?
(a) Customs agents do not let the collection through.
(b) There is a fire on his ship.
(c) Pirates steal his collection.
(d) Bailiffs impound the collection for back taxes.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What response does Zaga get from Dr. Sepulveda when she writes to him after returning home from Chile?

2. Jonathan and Ruby are looking at what when they have their first real conversation?

3. Linnaeus thinks about what while he is driven through the snow?

4. What do Ruby and Jonathan see when they sit on the patio now that the children are grown?

5. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?

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