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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. What year was Charles Darwin born?
(a) 1492.
(b) 1776.
(c) 1802.
(d) 1941.

2. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?
(a) Impotent.
(b) Magical.
(c) Mundane.
(d) Predictable.

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

4. Who befriended Wait after he ran away from home and taught him how to be a successful homosexual prostitute?
(a) A nurse.
(b) A cop.
(c) A waiter.
(d) A pimp.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What film footage did Mary Hepburn show her students when she lectured on the Galapagos Islands at Ilium High School?

2. What is James Wait's native city?

3. What is Ziggie?

4. What are "ghetto blasters?"

5. Whose wife did James Wait have sexual relations with when he was still in Midland City, Ohio?

(see the answer key)

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