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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Another theory is given that the animals on the Galapagos Islands had been shooed ashore two by two down the plank of __________.
(a) Joan's Ark.
(b) The Titanic.
(c) The Bahia de Darwin.
(d) Noah's Ark.

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

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

5. When does Siegfried von Kleist die?
(a) December 25, 1986.
(b) October 31, 1986.
(c) November 27, 1986.
(d) April 13, 1986.

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

7. What single word adequately describes Charles Darwin's transformation of the Galapagos Islands from worthless to priceless?
(a) Magical.
(b) Mundane.
(c) Impotent.
(d) Predictable.

8. What is the name of the archipelago of volcanic peaks due west of Guayaquil?
(a) The Galapagos Islands.
(b) The Kuril Islands.
(c) The Solomon Islands.
(d) The Fiji Islands.

9. What two names are left off the Bahia passenger list as a matter of delicacy?
(a) Selena MacIntosh and Kazakh.
(b) James Wait and Willard Flemming.
(c) Roy and Mary Hepburn.
(d) Andrew and Selena MacIntosh.

10. What did Mary Hepburn's husband, Roy, die from?
(a) A broken heart.
(b) Alcohol poisoning.
(c) A gunshot wound.
(d) A brain tumor.

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

12. 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.

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

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

15. How many species of finch are on the Island of Santa Rosalia?
(a) 13.
(b) 300.
(c) 3.
(d) 30.

Short Answer Questions

1. What television show does the Captain of the Bahia appear on?

2. How many children does Hernando Cruz have?

3. What subject did James Wait study for two years at the vocation high school in his home town?

4. When Wait considered himself old enough to run away, he hitchhiked to __________.

5. What subject is Adolf von Kleist interest in?

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