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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 two names are left off the Bahia passenger list as a matter of delicacy?
(a) James Wait and Willard Flemming.
(b) Andrew and Selena MacIntosh.
(c) Roy and Mary Hepburn.
(d) Selena MacIntosh and Kazakh.

2. Who will become the six Eves to Captain von Kleist's Adam on Santa Rosalia?
(a) The Kama'aina girls.
(b) The Kanaka Maoli girls.
(c) The Kanka-bonos girls.
(d) The Cheechako girls.

3. Who coined the term "biology?"
(a) Charles Darwin.
(b) Sigmund Freud.
(c) Gottfried Treveranus.
(d) Albert Einstein.

4. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?
(a) Pink Flamingos.
(b) Geospiza difficilis.
(c) Peacocks.
(d) Red-footed boobies.

5. What are "ghetto blasters?"
(a) Walkie Talkies.
(b) Type of weapon.
(c) A type of whistle.
(d) Portable radios and tape-players.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?

2. How many children does Hernando Cruz have?

3. What is James Wait's native city?

4. According to the narrator, what are the people of the Galapagos Islands only tool?

5. What television show does the Captain of the Bahia appear on?

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