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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. It is theorized that ________ created all the creatures on the Galapagos Islands, so they had no need for transportation.
(a) Buddha.
(b) God.
(c) Mohammed.
(d) Gandhi.

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

3. Who bathes the Captain every day and shampoos and combs his beard and hair?
(a) Mary Hepburn.
(b) Kamikaze.
(c) Sinka.
(d) Akiko.

4. How does Mary Hepburn introduce herself to James Wait?
(a) As an ex-teacher and a widow.
(b) As a marine biologist and a divorcee.
(c) As a college professor and a widow.
(d) As a principal and a divorcee.

5. Who is the 35-year-old American male who could not swim a stroke, who intended to get from the South American continent to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Leon Trout.
(d) James Wait.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Hisako Hiroguchi perform her first intimate act with in Chapter 32?

3. Who steers the Bahia during the day in Book 2: Chapter 4?

4. Where did the narrator's mom take him as a child that his father did not approve of?

5. What does James Wait say he thought people were put on earth to do?

(see the answer key)

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