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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who's head does the narrator get into while he rides in a taxicab from Guayaquil International Airport to the Bahia?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Charles Darwin.
(c) Seigfried von Kleist.
(d) James Wait.

2. What is ikebana?
(a) The Japanese art of pottery making.
(b) The Japanese art of flower arranging.
(c) The Chinese art of flower arranging.
(d) The Chinese art of sculpture making.

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

4. How does Mary Hepburn die?
(a) She has a brain tumor.
(b) A great white shark eats her.
(c) She falls overboard the Bahia.
(d) She commits suicide.

5. What is James Wait's native city?
(a) Reading.
(b) Springfield.
(c) Midland City.
(d) Akron.

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

7. To whom does Andrew MacIntosh reveal his real reason for flying Selena, Kazakh, and the Hiroguchis from Merida to Guayaquil?
(a) Selena.
(b) Kazakh.
(c) James Wait.
(d) Donald.

8. What animal is far superior to people when it comes to distinguishing between different odors?
(a) Fish.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Cats.
(d) Birds.

9. How many foster homes had Wait lived in growing up?
(a) 19.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 5.

10. What nationality does James Wait claim to be in Chapter 2?
(a) American.
(b) German.
(c) Irish.
(d) Canadian.

11. Where was the Bahia built?
(a) Russia.
(b) Sweden.
(c) Greece.
(d) Ecuador.

12. What is the capital of Ecuador?
(a) Guaranda.
(b) Quito.
(c) Guayaquil.
(d) Tulcán.

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

14. How does Andrew MacIntosh receive fifty million dollars?
(a) It is loaned to him from the bank.
(b) He wins it at the casino.
(c) It is loaned to him from a relative.
(d) He inherites the money.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was the last human marriage in the Galapagos Islands performed?

2. What subject is Adolf von Kleist interest in?

3. Including Wait, how many guests are staying at the Hotel El Dorado?

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

5. According to the narrator, what two animals keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves?

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