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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 name does Zenji Hiroguchi travel under?
(a) Willard Flemming.
(b) James Wait.
(c) Zenji Kenzaburo.
(d) Paloma Picasso.

2. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Aristotle.
(c) Charles Darwin.
(d) Galileo.

3. Where did the narrator's mom take him as a child that his father did not approve of?
(a) The aquarium.
(b) The circus.
(c) The zoo.
(d) The playground.

4. What other subject did Mary Hepburn teach at Ilium High School?
(a) Human sexuality.
(b) Art.
(c) Sociology.
(d) Physical education.

5. Who says: "Good luck, my Swedish princess. I shall dream of you."
(a) Hernando Cruz.
(b) Andrew MacIntosh.
(c) Domingo Quezeda.
(d) Jesús Ortiz.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator's mother could do all of the following dance forms except which one?

2. What extra credit response did Noble Claggett turn in to Mary Hepburn that stayed with her until the day she died?

3. 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?

4. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?

5. What country is Peru about to declare war on in Chapter 22?

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