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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. Who is Willard Flemming?
(a) The bartender at the Hotel El Dorado.
(b) Mary Hepburn's first husband.
(c) The manager at the Hotel El Dorado.
(d) The name James Wait uses on his Canadian passport.

2. Who can talk to animals?
(a) Mary.
(b) Roy.
(c) Selena.
(d) Leon.

3. What year was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1776.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1492.

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

5. Who coined the term "biology?"
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Gottfried Treveranus.
(c) Albert Einstein.
(d) Charles Darwin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the Galapagos Islands' northernmost island?

2. Who was a former citizen of the Soviet Union and has been granted political asylum in Great Britain?

3. Another theory is given that the animals on the Galapagos Islands had been shooed ashore two by two down the plank of __________.

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

5. Where did Wait meet, court, and marry his first wife?

(see the answer key)

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