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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 13-Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Galileo.

2. Who coined the term "biology?"
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Gottfried Treveranus.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Sigmund Freud.

3. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Salsa.
(b) Contemporary.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Ballroom.

4. What is the name of the Ecuadorian currency that has become worth less than a banana peel?
(a) Franc.
(b) Euro.
(c) Sucre.
(d) Dollar.

5. Where do Panama hats come from?
(a) Panama.
(b) Ecuador.
(c) Madagascar.
(d) Guyana.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What year was Charles Darwin born?

3. How many years does it take the Bahia to sink?

4. Who has claimed to have been exposed to radiation when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?

5. What was the narrator's father's occupation?

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