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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. What is the name of the archipelago of volcanic peaks due west of Guayaquil?
(a) The Fiji Islands.
(b) The Kuril Islands.
(c) The Galapagos Islands.
(d) The Solomon Islands.

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

3. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Salsa.
(b) Contemporary.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Ballroom.

4. Who owns the Bahia?
(a) A pair of old German brothers.
(b) A pair of old German sisters.
(c) A pair of young German sisters.
(d) A pair of young German brothers.

5. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.
(a) Manhattan.
(b) Charlotte.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Midland.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who's brain is so big that it can show him movies in his head which stars him and his dependents as millionaires?

2. Who is considered to be wild and greedy and inconsiderate, but not insane?

3. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?

4. How many tombs are on the Galapagos Islands?

5. Who can talk to animals?

(see the answer key)

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