1. What do Steinbeck and Ricketts buy that was eventually taken by US customs?
(a) A local liquor that is reputed to be an aphrodisiac.
(b) A local liquor that is reputed to enable men to survive without water for more than a week.
(c) A local liquor that is reputed to increase alertness when at sea.
(d) A local liquor that is reputed to substitute for fuel.

2. How does Steinbeck compare navigation at sea to life?
(a) He likens trying to keep a course to walking a tight pole.
(b) He likens sea navigation to cooking a gourmet course.
(c) He likens sea navigation to courting a girl.
(d) He likens trying to keep a course to attempting to achieve an ideal.

3. Aside from their daily experiences during the expedition, what other topics are discussed by the author?
(a) Culinary arts, Hollywood, and botany.
(b) Philosophy, mankind, biology and history.
(c) Politics, religion, physics and war.
(d) Literature, entertainment, laws and environment.

4. What are dry-balls?
(a) They are the dried coconut husks used by the local children to play ball.
(b) They are the biologists who study dead, preserved animals.
(c) They are the medicines given to the expedition party by the locals.
(d) They are the dried cotton balls brought to sea as part of the medicine kit.

5. What are the two types of biologists, as discussed by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts?
(a) Those who study dead, preserved animals and those who study life in all its complexity.
(b) Those who teach in the university and those who work for corporations.
(c) Those who have their own laboratory and those who rent a space for their laboratory works.
(d) Those who work at night and those who work during the day.