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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. Who does Antonia think Otto Leiniger is?
(a) A scholar.
(b) A gentleman.
(c) A salesman.
(d) A soldier.

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

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

4. Linnaeus has forgotten about which student?
(a) Ternstrom.
(b) Forskal.
(c) Falck.
(d) Thunberg.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long after they leave the marine biology station does Ruby call Jonathan?

2. Whom does Sophia nurse back to health?

3. What is Mendel's experience with hawkweeds?

4. Why do Ruby and Jonathan avoid talking about the evening that changes their lives?

5. Who builds Hammarby?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Linnaeus think as he is leaving Hammarby?

2. What happens when Tati sees Antonia and Leiniger together in the greenhouse?

3. How do Jonathan and Ruby act when they are together after their first real conversation?

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

5. What is remarkable about Thunberg?

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

7. In what situation is the coachman at the beginning of "The English Pupil?"

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

9. What has Linnaeus built at Hammarby?

10. The children talk about what when they visit Ruby and Jonathan?

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