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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. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?
(a) On a cruise.
(b) At the bar.
(c) At the dance studio.
(d) On the streets.

2. Where was the Bahia built?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Greece.
(c) Russia.
(d) Sweden.

3. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Domingo Quezeda.
(c) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(d) Andrew MackIntosh.

4. How does the narrator die?
(a) He was beheaded.
(b) He was ate by a shark.
(c) A brain tumor.
(d) He died of old age.

5. 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?
(a) Her spirit.
(b) Her brain.
(c) Her heart.
(d) Her kidneys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What year was Charles Darwin born?

2. Where do Panama hats come from?

3. What animal does Roy fight to stay alive to see on the Galapagos Islands?

4. What subject did Mary Hepburn teach at the public high school in Ilium, New York?

5. What is the name of the ship that Darwin took on a mapping expedition that would take him completely around the world and would last five years?

(see the answer key)

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