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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do Ruby and Jonathan see when they sit on the patio now that the children are grown?
(a) The children playing.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The children watching them.
(d) The garden.

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

4. How old is Sophia when her brother, Linnaeus' son, dies?
(a) Nine.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Two.
(d) Seven.

5. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?
(a) He refines his experimental techniques and shows how hawkweeds can be fertilized in the garden.
(b) He shows the mechanisms that prevent traits from being passed from one generation to another.
(c) He shows how traits can be passed from one generation to another.
(d) He performs technical sound experiments, but does not get results.

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

7. What does Antonia tell Sebastian Dunitz that she has not told her husband?
(a) Where she has kept Tati's papers.
(b) Mendel's horticultural secrets.
(c) The flaws in her husband's experimental techniques.
(d) Where she has learned about Mendel.

8. How old is Linnaeus' son when his son dies?
(a) Twenty seven years old.
(b) Two years old.
(c) Five years old.
(d) Thirty seven years old.

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

10. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?
(a) Rotheram.
(b) Hasselquist.
(c) Sara Lisa.
(d) Linnaeus himself.

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

12. What do Jonathan and Ruby compare as they start their first real conversation?
(a) Seaweed samples.
(b) Stories about their professors.
(c) Fish samples.
(d) Sores and poison ivy.

13. How does Linnaeus identify the man who arrives?
(a) He does not remember a wedding so it must be his daughter's fiancé.
(b) He had classified his students according to eye color once.
(c) He remembers the man's mustache.
(d) He remembers that the man who arrives always reminds him of one of his schoolmates.

14. What have Linnaeus' students done for him?
(a) They have written his books and articles.
(b) They have married his daughters.
(c) They have done his work of gathering and classifying plants and animals.
(d) They have cared for him in his old age.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Tati tell Antonia ruined Gregor Mendel's life?

2. What does Otto Leiniger ask Antonia to do when he finds her alone in the greenhouse?

3. Why is it difficult to experiment on hawkweeds?

4. What do Ruby and Jonathan do when the tension builds between them?

5. Where does Anton Vaculik work?

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