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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 17-Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the narrator's father's occupation?
(a) A scientist.
(b) A biology teacher.
(c) A science-fiction writer.
(d) A pastry chef.

2. What magazine does Andrew MacIntosh read from cover to cover every month?
(a) National Geographic.
(b) Times Magazine.
(c) Reader's Digest.
(d) Forbes Magazine.

3. 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 only surviving characters.
(c) These characters are the most important.
(d) These characters would be dead before the sun went down.

4. Who is considered to be wild and greedy and inconsiderate, but not insane?
(a) Mary Hepburn.
(b) Hernando Cruz.
(c) Andrew MacIntosh.
(d) James Wait.

5. How many children do the Hepburn's have?
(a) 1.
(b) 0.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who can talk to animals?

2. Who is the 35-year-old American male who could not swim a stroke, who intended to get from the South American continent to the Galapagos Islands?

3. What is Mary Hepburn wearing when she arrives at the Hotel El Dorado?

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

5. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?

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