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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: The Thing Was, Chapter 35-Chapter 36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the Peruvian pilot who has his fighter-bomber skipping from wisp to wisp of finely divided matter at the very edge of the planet's atmosphere in Chapter 34?
(a) Bobby King.
(b) Willard Flemming.
(c) Guillermo Reyes.
(d) Kilgore Trout.

2. Who is the Captain addressing when he shouts, "Welcome to 'the Nature Cruise of the Century'!"
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Siegfried von Kleist.
(c) Mary Hepburn.
(d) Leon Trout.

3. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh.
(b) Eduardo Ximénez.
(c) Siegfried von Kleist.
(d) Adolf von Kleist.

4. What animal is far superior to people when it comes to distinguishing between different odors?
(a) Birds.
(b) Cats.
(c) Dogs.
(d) Fish.

5. What is Guillermo Reyes's rocket compared to in Chapter 34?
(a) The flightless penguin.
(b) The great land torotise.
(c) The dancing blue-footed booby.
(d) The colorful chameleon.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the Bahia is raided, what is the Captain still in possession of?

2. Where did the narrator's mom take him as a child that his father did not approve of?

3. The Bahia is technically a ship designed for ________.

4. How many cruise ships have their port in Guayaquil?

5. What animal is Mary Hepburn hallucinating to be while suffocating herself?

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