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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Tati do when he sees Antonia and Otto Leiniger in the greenhouse?
(a) He threatens Antonia's life.
(b) He throws Leiniger against the wall.
(c) He slits Leiniger's throat.
(d) He stabs Leiniger's hand.

2. Who builds Hammarby?
(a) Rotheram.
(b) Linnaeus' family.
(c) Sara Lisa's family.
(d) Linnaeus.

3. What is in Linnaeus' museum?
(a) An exhibition of zoological specimens.
(b) An herbarium and insect collection.
(c) Pieces of early human skeletons.
(d) Fossils and stones.

4. 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 the eugenics.
(d) Copies of a paper on training dogs.

5. When does Antonia meet Richard?
(a) She is reading in a cafe where he is having lunch with a friend.
(b) She is living with a boyfriend and he is working as a gardener.
(c) She is working at the GE plant and he is finishing his thesis.
(d) She is writing her thesis and he is one of her students.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jonathan and Ruby are looking at what when they have their first real conversation?

2. Where does Mendel teach?

3. What does Linnaeus do when Pehr tells him that they should return?

4. Who is waiting for Antonia after she cames home from school after Leiniger has died?

5. What do both Jonathan and Ruby have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Richard smile and look at his wife when he tells the story of Mendel's life?

2. When a man and a woman arrive, who does Linnaeus think they are?

3. What happens when Ruby gets away from her family to call Jonathan?

4. What does Linnaeus remember about Rotheram?

5. What has Linnaeus built at Hammarby?

6. What do Linnaeus and his coachman do when they reach Hammarby?

7. Richard is sensitive about what condition?

8. What happens on the night about which Jonathan and Ruby will not speak?

9. What does Richard tell his students about Mendel's life?

10. What does Tati see when he scales the monastery walls outside of Brno?

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