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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 the surviving group on board the Bahia expect the most trouble to come from in Chapter 37?
(a) Kazakh.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Leon Trout.
(d) Madarax.

2. Who said: "Progress has been much more general than retrogression."
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Beethoven.
(c) Henry Adams.
(d) Aristotle.

3. Who is the Captain addressing when he shouts, "Welcome to 'the Nature Cruise of the Century'!"
(a) Siegfried von Kleist.
(b) Mary Hepburn.
(c) Adolf von Kleist.
(d) Leon Trout.

4. Who responds to the Captain's SOS in Book 2: Chapter 7?
(a) Kilgore Trout.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Mandarax.
(d) Robert Wojciehowitz.

5. Who is Sinka?
(a) Mary Hepburn's sister.
(b) The first Kanka-bono girl who has a baby.
(c) Leon Trout's wife.
(d) Selena's new seeing-eye dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's mom once told him that he had the blood of a ________ noblemen flowing through his veins.

2. What animal begins attacking the Captain's bedsores?

3. According to the narrator, how do people comfort those who are sick?

4. What food source is a cure for people with vitamin and mineral deficiencies?

5. According to the narrator, what is one of the top 1000 serious inherited diseases of Homo sapiens?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the narrator, are there anymore left handed people in the world? Explain.

2. How many times has the narrator seen the blue tunnel in to the Afterlife? Where has he seen it appear?

3. Is Siegfried von Kleist successful at committing suicide in Chapter 38? Explain.

4. Does Leon Trout obey the Father's request for him to go into the blue tunnel? Explain.

5. In Book 2: Chapter 12, what does the narrator suggest as a means for Mary Hepburn to keep on living with the Captain for a little while longer?

6. How is Prince Richard murdered? Who kills him?

7. Why does James Wait tell Mary Hepburn to call him by his first name? By what name does Mary call James?

8. According to the narrator, why do people get hiccups?

9. In the beginning of Chapter 13, what is Selena and Hisako seeking and finding?

10. Why does Mary Hepburn like James Wait immediately?

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