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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. Where does the second scene of "Rare Bird" open?
(a) In the garden.
(b) In the church.
(c) On London Bridge.
(d) In the laboratory.

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

3. What radical text does Richard give his classes?
(a) Copies of a paper on training dogs.
(b) Copies of a paper on hybridization of peas.
(c) Copies of a paper on the eugenics.
(d) Copies of a paper on human sexuality.

4. What does the man who arrives with Sophia tell Linnaeus?
(a) That he needs his approval to continue his studies.
(b) That he and Sophia are getting married.
(c) That it is time to go.
(d) That Sophia is expecting a baby.

5. What is the scientific atmosphere like in America when Alec returns with his samples?
(a) The Civil War has distracted all attention from science.
(b) The west is being settled and new species and fossils are creating a new enthusiasm for science.
(c) The controversies over Darwin's Origin of Species has just broken out.
(d) The Scopes Trial has just renewed the controversies around the question of evolution.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Wallace respond when Alec writes to him?

2. What does Barton give Alec?

3. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?

4. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?

5. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?

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