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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. How does Mary Hepburn die?
(a) A great white shark eats her.
(b) She has a brain tumor.
(c) She commits suicide.
(d) She falls overboard the Bahia.

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

3. According to the narrator, what made marriage so difficult?
(a) The lack of morals.
(b) The oversized brain.
(c) The undersized heart.
(d) The lack of support.

4. Who owns the Bahia?
(a) A pair of young German brothers.
(b) A pair of young German sisters.
(c) A pair of old German brothers.
(d) A pair of old German sisters.

5. What animal does Roy fight to stay alive to see on the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Giraffe.
(b) Penguins.
(c) Tortoises.
(d) Dolphins.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who befriended Wait after he ran away from home and taught him how to be a successful homosexual prostitute?

3. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.

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

5. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.

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