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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do Jonathan and Ruby have their first real conversation?
(a) When they are both assigned to kitchen duty.
(b) When they are assigned to the littoral zone.
(c) When they review each other's articles.
(d) When they meet at their sons' baseball game.

2. What do Jonathan and Ruby find to be difficult when returning after their time at the marine biology station?
(a) Seeing their families.
(b) Going back to their jobs.
(c) Remember each other's faces.
(d) Leaving each other.

3. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?
(a) Captain McSweeney from the police.
(b) Richard.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Tati.

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

5. Where is Mendel born?
(a) Prague.
(b) Paris.
(c) Budapest.
(d) Moravia.

6. Ruby, Jonathan, and the children talk about what when the children visit?
(a) Which children need to be picked up or dropped off, and where.
(b) Their plans for the future.
(c) The past.
(d) Life before Ruby and Jonathan get together.

7. What is the worst part about returning from the marine biology station?
(a) Confessing their affair.
(b) Explaining their exhaustion.
(c) Their families' happiness and ignorance.
(d) Being exposed by the icthyologist.

8. Where does Anton Vaculik go when he leaves his homeland?
(a) America.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) Prague.

9. Jonathan asks Ruby about what when she calls?
(a) Her tenure review.
(b) Her divorce.
(c) His letter.
(d) Her work.

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

11. What is the house like before the children are grown?
(a) It is filled with children on weekends and quiet in between.
(b) It is quiet on weekends and filled with children all week.
(c) It is always filled with children.
(d) It is always noisy with children coming and going.

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

13. How long after they leave the marine biology station does Ruby call Jonathan?
(a) A week.
(b) Two weeks.
(c) Two days.
(d) Twelve days.

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

15. What has Linnaeus taught his students?
(a) How to carry on when he predeceases them.
(b) That they are responsible for his success.
(c) That classifications have to be clear and expressive.
(d) That he will meet them again on the other side.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Anton Vaculik work?

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

3. What are Linnaeus' students holding when he sees them as he is leaving?

4. Where is Ruby working when she meets Jonathan?

5. What does Richard tell his students about Gregor Mendel?

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