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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two: And the Thing Became, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, what two animals keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves?
(a) Dolphins and stingrays.
(b) Blue-footed boobies and finches.
(c) Killer whales and sharks.
(d) Sea turtles and fish.

2. What was James Wait's father and mother's other relation?
(a) Brother and sister.
(b) Son and mother.
(c) Father and daughter.
(d) Cousins.

3. What war did the narrator fight in?
(a) Cold War.
(b) World War II.
(c) Civil War.
(d) Vietnam War.

4. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Siegfried von Kleist.
(c) Eduardo Ximénez.
(d) Andrew MacIntosh.

5. Who plans to commit suicide by smashing a bus into something?
(a) Selena MacIntosh.
(b) Willard Flemming.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Siegfried von Kleist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ikebana?

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

3. How does Mary Hepburn die?

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

5. What is the name of the Galapagos Islands' northernmost island?

(see the answer key)

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