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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 29-Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who tells Mary Hepburn the Bahia has landed on the Island of Santa Rosalia?
(a) A little bird.
(b) Andrew MacIntosh.
(c) The Captain.
(d) An iguana.

2. How many species of finch are on the Island of Santa Rosalia?
(a) 300.
(b) 30.
(c) 3.
(d) 13.

3. What animal is Mary Hepburn hallucinating to be while suffocating herself?
(a) A chameleon.
(b) A snake.
(c) A blue-footed booby.
(d) A land tortoise.

4. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Seigfried von Kleist.
(d) James Wait.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Adolf's parents?

2. To whom does Andrew MacIntosh reveal his real reason for flying Selena, Kazakh, and the Hiroguchis from Merida to Guayaquil?

3. Mary Hepburn whispers, "You are my enemy. Why would I want to carry such a terrible enemy inside of me?" What is she referring to?

4. What does Princess Charlotte design after the death of her husband, Prince Richard?

5. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?

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