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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Linnaeus' wife at the beginning of the story?
(a) Rotterdam.
(b) Hammarby.
(c) Lappland.
(d) Uppsala.

2. What are Linnaeus' students holding when he sees them as he is leaving?
(a) The gifts he has given them.
(b) The plants he has named after them.
(c) The books they have published.
(d) The animals they have named for him.

3. Who is Anton Vaculik?
(a) Richard's wife's father.
(b) Richard's maternal uncle.
(c) Richard's wife's grandfather.
(d) Richard's maternal grandfather.

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

5. Where is Jonathan working when he meets Ruby?
(a) At a university in Boston.
(b) At a college in the Berkshires.
(c) At a college near Albany.
(d) At a college in Ithaca.

6. What does Linnaeus do when Pehr tells him that they should return?
(a) He gets up and walks outside.
(b) He dies.
(c) He pulls the sled outside and locks the door.
(d) He smokes his pipe.

7. Where is Linneaus' museum at Hammarby?
(a) Adjacent to his study.
(b) Next to the kitchen.
(c) Up on the hill.
(d) Near town.

8. What does Richard tell his students about the paper he gives them?
(a) It is a model of good science.
(b) It should have been censored.
(c) It is going to revolutionize science.
(d) It is irresponsible and dangerous thinking.

9. What is the house like now that the children are grown?
(a) Ruby and Jonathan travel too much to be home.
(b) The children have left and it is always quiet.
(c) The children come and go as they please.
(d) The children bring their friends and it is always busy.

10. When does Mendel begin his experiments?
(a) 1859.
(b) 1865.
(c) 1856.
(d) 1888.

11. How is Linnaeus' health at the beginning of the story?
(a) He is young and in love.
(b) His heart is failing.
(c) He has had a number of strokes and is half paralyzed.
(d) He is in the prime of his health.

12. What does Nageli suggest to Mendel?
(a) That he turn his focus to peas.
(b) That he leave Brno and move to Munich.
(c) That he send Tati to study with him.
(d) That he focus his research on hawkweeds.

13. Why does Richard smile at his wife while he is giving the lecture about Mendel?
(a) She knows the secret of how Mendel had been led astray by another scientist.
(b) He likes to think about how their children have her eyes.
(c) He wants her to know that he still loves her more than science.
(d) She makes subtle jokes about how he delivers the material.

14. Who answers Ruby's call to Jonathan?
(a) Jonathan's daughter.
(b) Jonathan's mother.
(c) Jonathan.
(d) Jonathan's wife.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jonathan and Ruby laugh at what together at the marine biology station?

2. Why does Linnaeus ask his coachman to keep driving at the beginning of the story?

3. What is Linnaeus' wife's name?

4. What are the conditions like when Ruby and Jonathan get together?

5. What is in Linnaeus' museum?

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