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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) The Captain.
(b) A little bird.
(c) An iguana.
(d) Andrew MacIntosh.

2. How does Mary Hepburn introduce herself to James Wait?
(a) As a college professor and a widow.
(b) As a principal and a divorcee.
(c) As an ex-teacher and a widow.
(d) As a marine biologist and a divorcee.

3. Who was a former citizen of the Soviet Union and has been granted political asylum in Great Britain?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh.
(b) Kilgore Trout.
(c) Rudolf Nureyev.
(d) Bobby King.

4. What happened to Adolf's parents?
(a) They were killed by a meteorite.
(b) They moved to the Galapagos Islands.
(c) They were murdered.
(d) They got lost at sea.

5. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh.
(b) Eduardo Ximénez.
(c) Adolf von Kleist.
(d) Siegfried von Kleist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?

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

3. Who has a stuffed Galapagos marine iguana on his desk?

4. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?

5. How many species of finch are on the Island of Santa Rosalia?

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