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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 subject did Mary Hepburn teach at the public high school in Ilium, New York?
(a) Social Studies.
(b) Biology.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Literature.

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

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

4. What is the name of the archipelago of volcanic peaks due west of Guayaquil?
(a) The Fiji Islands.
(b) The Galapagos Islands.
(c) The Kuril Islands.
(d) The Solomon Islands.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Donald?

2. According to the narrator, what made marriage so difficult?

3. Who has claimed to have been exposed to radiation when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?

4. According to the narrator, what is one of the top 1000 serious inherited diseases of Homo sapiens?

5. What is the theory behind people with more of a streamlined skull?

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