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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. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?
(a) Andrew MackIntosh.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) Domingo Quezeda.
(d) James Wait.

2. How does Mary Hepburn die?
(a) She has a brain tumor.
(b) She commits suicide.
(c) A great white shark eats her.
(d) She falls overboard the Bahia.

3. In what language does Andrew MacIntosh speak to Jesús Ortiz in?
(a) English.
(b) Kongo.
(c) Swedish.
(d) Spanish.

4. What do the two stars by the names of certain characters in the story mean?
(a) These characters would be dead before the sun went down.
(b) These characters are the only surviving characters.
(c) These characters are the most important.
(d) These characters are royal figures.

5. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) Spain.
(c) England.
(d) France.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Mary Hepburn introduce herself to James Wait?

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

4. What year was Charles Darwin born?

5. What is James Wait's native city?

(see the answer key)

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