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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. Who is considered the ancestor of every human being on the face of the earth and the Captain of the Bahia?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) Siegfried von Kleist.
(d) Hisako Hiroguchi.

2. What extra credit response did Noble Claggett turn in to Mary Hepburn that stayed with her until the day she died?
(a) A song.
(b) A portrait.
(c) A poem.
(d) A novel.

3. According to the narrator, what are the people of the Galapagos Islands only tool?
(a) Fingers.
(b) Rocks.
(c) Teeth.
(d) Sticks.

4. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Bahia de Darwin.
(b) The Bahia de Caraquez Ecuador.
(c) The Bahia de Santander.
(d) The Bahia de Navidad.

5. According to the narrator, what made marriage so difficult?
(a) The lack of morals.
(b) The lack of support.
(c) The undersized heart.
(d) The oversized brain.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who owns the Bahia?

2. It is theorized that ________ created all the creatures on the Galapagos Islands, so they had no need for transportation.

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

4. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.

5. What bird becomes crucial to the survival of the little human colony on Santa Rosalia?

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