View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 21-Chapter 22.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?
(a) November 28, 1986.
(b) April 1, 1986.
(c) July 4, 1986.
(d) January 1, 1986.

3. The narrator's mother could do all of the following dance forms except which one?
(a) Disco.
(b) The Waltz.
(c) The Jitterbug.
(d) The Lindy hop.

4. What country is Peru about to declare war on in Chapter 22?
(a) Brazil.
(b) Paraguay.
(c) Guyana.
(d) Ecuador.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?

3. What war did the narrator fight in?

4. Who is Willard Flemming?

5. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 227 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample