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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Alec feel about killing specimens and orphaning their young?
(a) He is glad to kill the specimens and turn them into scientific facts.
(b) He is torn between his work and his emotions.
(c) He is not guilty because that is his work.
(d) He is guilty and it starts to depress him.

2. What has Alec been collecting in Sarawak?
(a) Butterflies.
(b) Beetles.
(c) Apes.
(d) Birds.

3. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?
(a) Selling rights to a new drug.
(b) Developing new medicinal oils.
(c) Marketing artwork.
(d) Selling rights to artwork.

4. How does Wallace respond when Alec writes to him?
(a) He gives Alec suggestions for collecting valuable specimens.
(b) He invites Alec to the Malay Archipelago.
(c) He gives Alec tips for raising funds for a trip.
(d) He sympathizes with Alec's loss.

5. What does Rose convince Bianca to do with her?
(a) Move to New York.
(b) Move back home to live with their father.
(c) Travel.
(d) Camp out at the lab.

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

7. What does Rose cook for Bianca?
(a) Beans.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) Squash.
(d) Chicken.

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

9. What answer did Sarah Anne finally get from the person to whom she had written during the dinner party?
(a) The person has chastised her for her presumptuousness.
(b) The person has dismissed her theories.
(c) The person has accused her of being unethical.
(d) Her theories have been adopted as the person's new position.

10. What does Sarah Anne think her brother thinks of her when she proposes to test the theory about swallows?
(a) She thinks that he is judging her harshly.
(b) She thinks that he resents her for being smart.
(c) She thinks that he is embarrassed by her.
(d) She thinks that he is envious of her intelligence.

11. Mrs. Pearce and Sarah Anne Billopp agree on what during their conversation?
(a) Scientists should be morally upstanding people.
(b) Scientific theories should be based on evidence.
(c) Scientific theories should give evidence of divine laws.
(d) Lay people should have faith in scientists and God.

12. Who does Rob want Zaga to meet when he calls her?
(a) Dr. Sepulveda.
(b) Nicholas Bennett.
(c) Rob and Alicia.
(d) His daughter.

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

14. Where are Wallace's specimens placed when Wallace arrives in England?
(a) The Institute of Natural Sciences.
(b) The Washington Zoo.
(c) The Queen's Zoo.
(d) The Zoological Gardens.

15. What does Barton give Alec?
(a) Letters of introduction.
(b) Money.
(c) Specimens.
(d) Passage to the Amazon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who dies of the ague?

2. What is Wallace doing while Alec is sweating through the ague and sending samples to Philadelphia?

3. What prevents Alec from giving up his taxidermy hobby?

4. To whom does Sarah Anne write a letter when she is alone?

5. What role does Sarah Anne play when the guests are talking?

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