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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 17-Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. in 1986 A.D., where was the chief seaport of the little South American democracy of Ecuador?
(a) Guaranda.
(b) Babahoyo.
(c) Guayaquil.
(d) Esmeraldas.

4. Who's brain is so big that it can show him movies in his head which stars him and his dependents as millionaires?
(a) Jesús Ortiz.
(b) Andrew MacIntosh.
(c) Leon Trout.
(d) Domingo Quezeda.

5. How many foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 19.
(d) 2.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What animal is far superior to people when it comes to distinguishing between different odors?

4. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?

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

(see the answer key)

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