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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 5-Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Contemporary.
(b) Salsa.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Ballroom.

2. Who is Willard Flemming?
(a) The name James Wait uses on his Canadian passport.
(b) Mary Hepburn's first husband.
(c) The bartender at the Hotel El Dorado.
(d) The manager at the Hotel El Dorado.

3. How many years does it take the Bahia to sink?
(a) 10.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

4. What do the two stars by the names of certain characters in the story mean?
(a) These characters are royal figures.
(b) These characters are the most important.
(c) These characters would be dead before the sun went down.
(d) These characters are the only surviving characters.

5. What is the capital of Ecuador?
(a) Guayaquil.
(b) Guaranda.
(c) Tulcán.
(d) Quito.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?

2. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.

3. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?

4. What is ikebana?

5. What subject did Mary Hepburn teach at the public high school in Ilium, New York?

(see the answer key)

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