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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. Including Wait, how many guests are staying at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) 2.
(b) 100.
(c) 53.
(d) 6.

2. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
(a) England.
(b) Spain.
(c) France.
(d) Ecuador.

3. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?
(a) Impotent.
(b) Magical.
(c) Mundane.
(d) Predictable.

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

5. Who befriended Wait after he ran away from home and taught him how to be a successful homosexual prostitute?
(a) A cop.
(b) A nurse.
(c) A pimp.
(d) A waiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the body of water named in honor of Charles Darwin?

2. What animal is not found on the Galapagos Islands?

3. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?

4. What is James Wait's native city?

5. What is the name of the Ecuadorian currency that has become worth less than a banana peel?

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