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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two: And the Thing Became, Chapter 5-Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. As far as humanity is concerned, the Bahia is the new __________.
(a) Ariel.
(b) Titanic.
(c) Noah's Ark.
(d) Sir Lancelot.

2. What is the name of the ship that Darwin took on a mapping expedition that would take him completely around the world and would last five years?
(a) The Beagle.
(b) The Bronco.
(c) The Bangle.
(d) The Beetle.

3. Who's maiden name is Boone?
(a) Hisako Hiroguchi.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) Selena MacIntosh.
(d) Mary Hepburn.

4. Who has claimed to have been exposed to radiation when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?
(a) Hisako Hiroguchi.
(b) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(c) Willard Flemming.
(d) Selena MacIntosh.

5. What subject is Adolf von Kleist interest in?
(a) Global warming.
(b) Fishing.
(c) Baseball.
(d) Meteorites.

Short Answer 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?

2. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?

3. Who coined the term "biology?"

4. What subject did Mary Hepburn teach at the public high school in Ilium, New York?

5. What company is automating the Bahia and also employs Zenji Hiroguchi?

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