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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 type of business does the Marburg family run?
(a) A science lab.
(b) A psychic hotline.
(c) A bakery.
(d) A winery.

2. Why does Grosse Isle eventually shut down?
(a) Because all of the doctors have died.
(b) Because they run out of supplies.
(c) Because there are no more sick patients.
(d) Because the city can no longer afford to fund it.

3. At the end of the story, where does Nora Kynd hope to move to?
(a) Detroit.
(b) Philadelphia.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

4. What is unique about the Paradisaea apoda specimen that Alec Carrière finds?
(a) All of the answers are true.
(b) It is completely intact.
(c) It is still alive.
(d) It is a pregnant female.

5. When the girls are spending the evening in Rose's laboratory what is the one thing they wish for?
(a) For their father to accept them for who they are.
(b) To be able to speak with their mother.
(c) To remain best friends forever.
(d) To have personal success, academically and personally.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are most Paradisaea apoda specimen kept?

2. Where in her class did Bianca graduate from college?

3. Where does Joel take Zaga for their honeymoon?

4. Which of the following adjectives best describes the Marburg sisters when they were growing up?

5. What was the name of the ship captained by Captain FitzRoy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the state of the passengers aboard the ships at Grosse Isle?

2. Who is Adam Rowley?

3. Who started the winery in "The Marburg Sisters" and who runs it at the time of the story's setting?

4. What school subject do the Marburg sisters excel in, and how does this shape their adulthood?

5. What happened to Jemmy Button a year after arriving in England?

6. How do Bianca and Rose spend their evening in August, 1980 when Bianca visits Rose's laboratory?

7. In the opening pages of "Soroche" what does the reader learn about Zaga's character?

8. Why is Carrière jealous of Wallace?

9. What unusual pet did Carrière keep for a short time while in the Malay Archipelago, and what happened to this unusual pet?

10. How did Wallace and Carrière meet?

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