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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who wants to become a major property owner in Ecuador?
(a) Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
(b) Andrew MackIntosh.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Domingo Quezeda.

2. Who says: "Good luck, my Swedish princess. I shall dream of you."
(a) Jesús Ortiz.
(b) Andrew MacIntosh.
(c) Hernando Cruz.
(d) Domingo Quezeda.

3. The Bahia is technically a ship designed for ________.
(a) Fishing.
(b) War.
(c) Cargo.
(d) Scuba diving.

4. 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) Charles Darwin.
(b) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Leon Trout.

5. What bird becomes crucial to the survival of the little human colony on Santa Rosalia?
(a) Waved albatross.
(b) Red-footed booby.
(c) Finch.
(d) Blue-footed booby.

6. Who can talk to animals?
(a) Selena.
(b) Mary.
(c) Roy.
(d) Leon.

7. 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 Bronco.
(b) The Beagle.
(c) The Bangle.
(d) The Beetle.

8. 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) Beak-Pointing.
(c) Blue-Love.
(d) Heart-Forming.

9. Who tells Mary Hepburn the Bahia has landed on the Island of Santa Rosalia?
(a) An iguana.
(b) The Captain.
(c) A little bird.
(d) Andrew MacIntosh.

10. Who is Willard Flemming?
(a) The manager at the Hotel El Dorado.
(b) Mary Hepburn's first husband.
(c) The name James Wait uses on his Canadian passport.
(d) The bartender at the Hotel El Dorado.

11. What do the two stars by the names of certain characters in the story mean?
(a) These characters are the most important.
(b) These characters would be dead before the sun went down.
(c) These characters are royal figures.
(d) These characters are the only surviving characters.

12. What bird is a teaser and a robber of the blue-footed boobies?
(a) The blue heron.
(b) The waved albatrosses.
(c) The penguin.
(d) The frigate.

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

14. According to the narrator, what made marriage so difficult?
(a) The oversized brain.
(b) The lack of support.
(c) The undersized heart.
(d) The lack of morals.

15. What company is automating the Bahia and also employs Zenji Hiroguchi?
(a) Sony.
(b) GEFFCo.
(c) Mitsumi.
(d) Matsumoto.

Short Answer Questions

1. What country is Peru about to declare war on in Chapter 22?

2. What happened to Adolf's parents?

3. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?

4. In Chapter 26, where does the Captain devise his emergency plan for the Bahia?

5. Another theory is given that the animals on the Galapagos Islands had been shooed ashore two by two down the plank of __________.

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