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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ship Fever.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Rose and Bianca spend the rest of the night?
(a) They stay up all night talking.
(b) They go out late for more food.
(c) They do not remember.
(d) They call their father and talk for hours.

2. What is Bianca doing now?
(a) Traveling.
(b) Studying enzyme structures.
(c) Working for her father.
(d) Writing about genetic transmission.

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

4. Which of Linnaeus' students has been most faithful about writing?
(a) Hasselquist.
(b) Thunberg.
(c) Falck.
(d) Ternstrom.

5. In what scientific principle does Wallace profess his faith when he is talking with Alec in Borneo?
(a) Adaptation through divine intent.
(b) Evolution as a punctuated equilibrium.
(c) The permanence of species.
(d) The emergence of new varieties of species.

Short Answer Questions

1. The pieces of straw in the water off the quarantine island are a sign of what?

2. How old are Rose and Bianca when their mother is killed?

3. What do Rose and Bianca do at midnight?

4. What does Rose convince Bianca to do with her?

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

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