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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. How many children does Hernando Cruz have?
(a) 0.
(b) 5.
(c) 11.
(d) 1.

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

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

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

7. When is the Bahia scheduled to sail?
(a) November 28, 1986.
(b) January 1, 1986.
(c) July 4, 1986.
(d) April 1, 1986.

8. 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) Adolf von Kleist.
(c) Leon Trout.
(d) Hisako Hiroguchi.

9. How many years does it take the Bahia to sink?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 10.
(d) 1.

10. According to the narrator, what two animals keep the human population nice and manageable, and nobody starves?
(a) Sea turtles and fish.
(b) Killer whales and sharks.
(c) Dolphins and stingrays.
(d) Blue-footed boobies and finches.

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

12. Who is Kazakh?
(a) Selena's seeing-eye dog.
(b) Selena's father.
(c) The hotel manager.
(d) Roy Hepburn's mistress.

13. What make and model vehicle does Hernando Cruz drive?
(a) Cadillac El Dorado.
(b) BMW Mini Cooper.
(c) Ford Mustang.
(d) Mercedes Benz SLR.

14. Who's portrait is behind the bar at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) Galileo.
(b) Archimedes.
(c) Aristotle.
(d) Charles Darwin.

15. What is the name of the Ecuadorian currency that has become worth less than a banana peel?
(a) Dollar.
(b) Sucre.
(c) Euro.
(d) Franc.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?

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

3. Who has claimed to have been exposed to radiation when the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan?

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

5. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?

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