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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do Rose and Bianca spend the rest of the night?

3. To whom does Zaga rent her condominium?

4. At whose house is Wallace staying when Alec finds him next in 1855?

5. Through Rob, Zaga get involved in what kind of investment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do Wallace and Alec not travel together in the Malay Archipelago?

2. What happens when Rose and Bianca return to Hammondsport for the funeral?

3. What is the only case where Alec precedes Wallace?

4. What happens when Mrs. Pearce asks Sarah Anne what she is looking at when they meet at the bridge?

5. What happens to Sarah Anne and Catherine after they perform their experiment?

6. What does Dr. Sepulveda do for Zaga when she is sick?

7. What difficulties does Alec have in bringing the Birds of Paradise back with him?

8. How do Zaga's stepchildren react when Zaga is sick in Chile?

9. What does Bianca do now?

10. What happens to Zaga after the investment she makes in Nicholas Bennett's scheme fails?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What do characters give up in order to live lives of scientific inquiry? Cite examples as you discuss the sacrifices of science in three stories.

Essay Topic 2

Do men and women in Barrett's story approach science differently? Are there masculine and a feminine ways of knowing? Are those categories fixed or flexible? Use specific examples from three stories in your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Many of Barrett's stories contain parents and children. How does the parent-child relationship function in three of the stories? Alternatively, how does the sibling-sibling relationship function in three of the stories?

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