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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. Who is considered the ancestor of every human being on the face of the earth and the Captain of the Bahia?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Siegfried von Kleist.
(c) Leon Trout.
(d) Hisako Hiroguchi.

2. What can the narrator see that Mary Hepburn can not in Book 2: Chapter 7?
(a) A tidal wave.
(b) The albatrosses.
(c) The blue tunnel into the Afterlife.
(d) Land.

3. What extra credit response did Noble Claggett turn in to Mary Hepburn that stayed with her until the day she died?
(a) A portrait.
(b) A poem.
(c) A song.
(d) A novel.

4. What is the name given to the moment when the beaks of the blue-footed boobies are pointed in the direction exactly opposite to the pull of gravity?
(a) Sky-Pointing.
(b) Blue-Love.
(c) Beak-Pointing.
(d) Heart-Forming.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Roy fight to stay alive to see on the Galapagos Islands?

2. What doubt does Mary Hepburn have that leads her to take action to get a Kanka-bono girl pregnant?

3. What did Mary Hepburn's husband, Roy, die from?

4. Who has a stuffed Galapagos marine iguana on his desk?

5. What are "ghetto blasters?"

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