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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 26, where does the Captain devise his emergency plan for the Bahia?
(a) In the shower.
(b) In the garden.
(c) In the ocean.
(d) In the sauna.

2. What name does Zenji Hiroguchi travel under?
(a) James Wait.
(b) Willard Flemming.
(c) Zenji Kenzaburo.
(d) Paloma Picasso.

3. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?
(a) Aircraft repair and maintenance.
(b) Automobile repair and maintenance.
(c) Restaurant Management.
(d) Paralegal.

4. What bloodsucking animal, found on the Island of Santa Rosalia, survive by pecking at the long neck of an unheeding booby until it has raised little beads of blood?
(a) Red-footed boobies.
(b) Geospiza difficilis.
(c) Peacocks.
(d) Pink Flamingos.

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

6. 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) Leon Trout.
(c) Zenji Hiroguchi.
(d) James Wait.

7. Who's brain is so big that it can show him movies in his head which stars him and his dependents as millionaires?
(a) Jesús Ortiz.
(b) Leon Trout.
(c) Andrew MacIntosh.
(d) Domingo Quezeda.

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

9. Including Wait, how many guests are staying at the Hotel El Dorado?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 53.
(d) 100.

10. Who was a former citizen of the Soviet Union and has been granted political asylum in Great Britain?
(a) Andrew MacIntosh.
(b) Kilgore Trout.
(c) Bobby King.
(d) Rudolf Nureyev.

11. Who is unmarried, never reproduced, and drowns by a tidal wave?
(a) Adolf von Kleist.
(b) Siegfried von Kleist.
(c) Eduardo Ximénez.
(d) Andrew MacIntosh.

12. In what language does Andrew MacIntosh speak to Jesús Ortiz in?
(a) Swedish.
(b) Spanish.
(c) English.
(d) Kongo.

13. Who claimed the Galapagos Islands in 1832?
(a) England.
(b) France.
(c) Ecuador.
(d) Spain.

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

15. What is the name of the cruise ship that takes its maiden voyage to the Galapagos Islands?
(a) The Bahia de Darwin.
(b) The Bahia de Caraquez Ecuador.
(c) The Bahia de Santander.
(d) The Bahia de Navidad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What war did the narrator fight in?

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

3. Who coined the term "biology?"

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?

5. What year was Charles Darwin born?

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