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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. The narrator's mother could do all of the following dance forms except which one?
(a) The Jitterbug.
(b) Disco.
(c) The Lindy hop.
(d) The Waltz.

7. How many wives has James Wait had?
(a) 1.
(b) 3.
(c) 10.
(d) 17.

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

9. What country is Peru about to declare war on in Chapter 22?
(a) Paraguay.
(b) Guyana.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Ecuador.

10. When his beauty began to fade, Wait became an instructor in __________ dancing.
(a) Ballroom.
(b) Contemporary.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Salsa.

11. What extra credit response did Noble Claggett turn in to Mary Hepburn that stayed with her until the day she died?
(a) A novel.
(b) A song.
(c) A portrait.
(d) A poem.

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

13. Who coined the term "biology?"
(a) Sigmund Freud.
(b) Albert Einstein.
(c) Gottfried Treveranus.
(d) Charles Darwin.

14. What animal is not found on the Galapagos Islands?
(a) Gophers.
(b) Iguanas.
(c) Geckos.
(d) Tortoises.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird becomes crucial to the survival of the little human colony on Santa Rosalia?

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

3. Who's brain is so big that it can show him movies in his head which stars him and his dependents as millionaires?

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

5. What do the two stars by the names of certain characters in the story mean?

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