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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 11-Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What is ikebana?
(a) The Japanese art of flower arranging.
(b) The Chinese art of sculpture making.
(c) The Japanese art of pottery making.
(d) The Chinese art of flower arranging.

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

4. Who is the 35-year-old American male who could not swim a stroke, who intended to get from the South American continent to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Leon Trout.
(b) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Charles Darwin.

5. What subject did Mary Hepburn teach at the public high school in Ilium, New York?
(a) Literature.
(b) Biology.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Social Studies.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Donald?

2. How does the narrator die?

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

4. Who is Willard Flemming?

5. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?

(see the answer key)

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